[2/10] Remove &builtin_type_ from tdep code (amd64/s390/sparc64)

[Ulrich Weigand]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:17:09PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:06:11PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > > > However, this macro is not fully equivalent; in particular it
> > > > is no longer possible to use &builtin_type_double.
> > > 
> > > You keep saying this, but is it true? :-)
> > 
> > Well, you can take the address, but you won't get the gdbarch-swap
> > effect any more.  So if you were relying on that, it'll break ...
> 
> Right.  Fortunately here we don't need the swap effect, since we have
> the right gdbarch - but I'd forgotten about post_init.

Also, in nearly all the cases an address of a builtin_type_ was taken,
it was in the context of a static initialization expression -- and
*there*, the macro would indeed be an error, as it no longer
represents a constant expression.

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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