64-bit (>4GB) inferior data types rules; TYPE_LENGTH: unsigned -> ULONGEST
Jan Kratochvil
jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Sat Sep 29 16:58:00 GMT 2012
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:32:29 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> (5) Patched GDB expects only these inferior types may have >2GB size:
> TYPE_CODE_ARRAY, TYPE_CODE_STRUCT, TYPE_CODE_UNION
> And of course where applicable:
> TYPE_CODE_TYPEDEF
TYPE_CODE_STRING technically can be >2GB but I do not think it makes much
sense in practice, also current GDB cannot handle it well anyway, I was not
strictly ensuring its >2GB handling is correct.
Jan
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