On Saturday, July 10, 2010 05:39:09 pm Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 03:03:53PM +0200, Ken Werner wrote:
> > But while we are at it. Are there any objections on copying the contents
> > to the destination instead of creating a pointer?
> 
> I think we're going a bit too far now, and maybe we need to figure out
> what the semantics of internalvars are supposed to be...
> 
> With this, IIUC, "set $internalvar = program_array" is going to read
> the whole array.  Previously, it would decay to a pointer as in C.

I agree. As I don't have a strong opinion either way on this particular case 
I'd leave that decision to more experienced GDB developers.

Here is the patch I intended to post where only the call to 
value_coerce_to_target is omitted and the value_must_coerce_to_target routine 
returns zero in case of a vector. Tested on powerpc64-*-linux-gnu with no 
regressions.

Regards.
-ken