[PATCH] Use read_memory_unsigned_integer when reading to CORE_ADDR
Klee Dienes
klee@apple.com
Sat Oct 5 23:52:00 GMT 2002
Perhaps something along the lines of the following?
{
unsigned char buf[sizeof (CORE_ADDR)];
if (target_read_memory (memaddr, buf, TYPE_LENGTH
(builtin_type_void_data_ptr)) != 0)
error ("Unable to determine lower bound of array.");
*lower_bound = extract_typed_address (buf,
builtin_type_void_data_ptr);
}
That's a bit verbose, and it's not clear to me if sizeof (CORE_ADDR) is
guaranteed to be large enough to contain a raw target pointer, but I
can't really think of any better alternatives.
Aside from the intimidating comments in findvar.c, this would seem a
good candidate for extract_address ... though a similar modification
would have to be made to it to handle the sign-extension as well.
Or alternately, I could just leave well-enough alone, and be careful to
truncate CORE_ADDRs to 32 bits in our target xfer_memory code (or the
MIPS code could sign-extend it in the same place).
On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 10:57 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> Well, I'm a little concerned about this. MIPS generally wants the
> result to be sign extended; the MIPS 32-bit ABIs map onto the lowest
> and highest 2G segments of the 64-bit address space, not the low 4G
> segment. Isn't there an appropriate function somewhere to read a
> CORE_ADDR?
>
> Answer: Yes, there is, but it has the same problem. You're just
> extending current practice, so I don't see a problem with your patch.
>
> Andrew, is my understanding right? Is there some reason this isn't a
> problem?
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