[rfc] DWARF expression evaluation vs. GDB address encoding problems

Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
Fri Jun 25 13:02:00 GMT 2010


Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> Ulrich> In fact, this seems the real problem to me: operations on the DWARF
> Ulrich> stack should really use the target pointer / address representation;
> Ulrich> only after the computation is complete should the value be converted
> Ulrich> into the GDB internal address representation (CORE_ADDR).
> 
> This makes sense to me.
> 
> Ulrich> As a side effect, we no longer need to employ the value machinery
> Ulrich> to perform binary operations on the DWARF stack.
> 
> Nice.
> 
> Ulrich> Tom, does this look reasonable to you?
> 
> Yes, thanks.

OK, thanks for the review!

I've checked the patch in now.

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com



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