[RFC] setting the raw content of a register

[Doug Evans]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 04:24 PM, Jerome Guitton wrote:
>
>> Pedro Alves (palves@redhat.com):
>>
>>> What about :
>>>
>>>   p $f14 = {double} {0xFFF0000000000050}
>>
>> I've been testing with a bareboard PPC, and this needs malloc;
>
>
> Hmm, looks like you're right.  I was almost certain there was a way
> to avoid the malloc if the cast/conversion is done to a type of
> the exact same size as the source array, but it's escaping me now
> how.

IWBN to solve this without adding a new command, the problem is more
general than just assigning values to registers.  I may want to use
the value in an expression, for example.