[PATCH v2 1/3] Use unsigned ints in regcache_map_entry

[Simon Marchi]

On 2018-06-21 11:19 AM, Alan Hayward wrote:
> I originally wrote this for just the _part functions and then I rejected
> it. The problem as I see it with this is that, mostly all the code calling
> these functions today are using ints.
> 
> So, to keep it safe we should really update all the callers too. For example,
> one picked at random:
> 
> --- a/gdb/m32c-tdep.c
> +++ b/gdb/m32c-tdep.c
> @@ -443,9 +443,9 @@ m32c_find_part (struct m32c_reg *reg, int *offset_p, int *len_p)
>     bits, read the value of the REG->n'th element.  */
>  static enum register_status
>  m32c_part_read (struct m32c_reg *reg, readable_regcache *cache, gdb_byte *buf)
>  {
> -  int offset, len;
> +  unsigned int offset, len;
> 
>    memset (buf, 0, TYPE_LENGTH (reg->type));
>    m32c_find_part (reg, &offset, &len);
>    return cache->cooked_read_part (reg->rx->num, offset, len, buf);
> 
> And without checking, I’m not sure m32c_find_part can guarantee unsigned.
> 
> Without those changes all we are doing is losing some assert protection.

Fair enough, I'm fine with keeping the ints and the >= 0 asserts.  It was just
a tiny itch :).

Simon