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From: "Pierre Muller" <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
To: "'Kai Tietz'" <ktietz70@googlemail.com>
Cc: "'GCC Patches'" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	       "'Binutils'" <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	"'gdb'" <gdb@sourceware.org>,
	       "'Jakub Jelinek'" <jakub@redhat.com>,
	       "'Joel Brobecker'" <brobecker@adacore.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC patch]: Adjust the use of 'long' type in dwarf2.h header
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00aa01cbd1cd$a358ae70$ea0a0b50$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTingRFjfLtvFFVpJXuu1L_bV-0whUZOsL8z+s2L6@mail.gmail.com>

> Yes, I saw this too and it is a thorn here. But the issue about a
> transformation function (like dwarf_vma) is that we have memory leaks
> - as this function is to be used on some printf's more then once - as
> static buffer would be overriden. Well printfs can be splitted into
> smaller parts, but this then would make localization even harder.

 In GDB code, this is solved in utils.c source by the use of the
get_cell function, which rotates over 16 char arrays of size 50 each
currently, in dwarf.c 4 arrays of 16 char (as long as longest address is
64-bit)
for this dwarf_vma function would probably be enough, no?


Pierre Muller
GDB pascal language maintainer





  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-21 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17 14:21 Kai Tietz
2011-02-17 18:59 ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-17 19:03   ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-02-17 19:07     ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-17 19:17       ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-02-18  9:50         ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-21 12:37           ` NightStrike
2011-02-21 13:10 ` Pierre Muller
     [not found] ` <-8460070221060995487@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-21 13:27   ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-21 13:46     ` Pierre Muller [this message]
     [not found]     ` <-6930711422310680743@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-21 14:30       ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-21 15:25         ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-21 15:43           ` Mark Kettenis
2011-02-21 15:53             ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-22 15:21           ` Nick Clifton
2011-02-23  8:59             ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-23 15:12               ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]               ` <-2339605939192327273@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-23 17:42                 ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-23 21:55                   ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]                   ` <-3886800211494155692@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-23 22:51                     ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-24 11:33                       ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]                       ` <1561346207520594884@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-24 13:50                         ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-25 10:40                           ` [RFC] Use only dwarf_vma types in dwarf code (was RE: [RFC patch]: Adjust the use of 'long' type in dwarf2.h header) Pierre Muller
     [not found]                           ` <5095785081977025060@unknownmsgid>
2011-02-25 12:23                             ` Kai Tietz
2011-02-25 13:31                               ` Pierre Muller
2011-02-25 13:35                               ` [RFC-v2] Use only dwarf_vma types in dwarf code Pierre Muller
2011-03-25 15:16                                 ` Nick Clifton
2011-03-25 15:48                                   ` [RFA] Supplemtal patch for use " Pierre Muller
2011-03-25 18:04                                     ` Nick Clifton
2011-03-25 21:44                                       ` Pierre Muller

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