[RFC] convert a host address to a string
Joel Brobecker
brobecker@adacore.com
Tue Jan 13 12:09:00 GMT 2009
Here is the patch that I ended checkin in...
2009-01-13 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
* utils.c (host_address_to_string): Reimplement in a way that
avoids the cast of the address to long.
Tested on x86-linux and x86-windows. I also re-built the debugger
on Vista64, and used "set debug arch" to verify that it can print
host addresses.
--
Joel
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Index: utils.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/utils.c,v
retrieving revision 1.203
diff -u -p -r1.203 utils.c
--- utils.c 7 Jan 2009 12:11:07 -0000 1.203
+++ utils.c 13 Jan 2009 12:04:25 -0000
@@ -3071,10 +3071,7 @@ host_address_to_string (const void *addr
{
char *str = get_cell ();
- /* We could use the %p conversion specifier to sprintf if we had any
- way of knowing whether this host supports it. But the following
- should work on the Alpha and on 32 bit machines. */
- sprintf (str, "0x%lx", (unsigned long) addr);
+ xsnprintf (str, CELLSIZE, "0x%s", phex_nz ((uintptr_t) addr, sizeof (addr)));
return str;
}
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