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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/24] gdb: use reg_buffer_common throughout gdbsupport/common-regcache.h
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:42:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ab24b87-520f-4499-beaa-ad48739d9207@FreeBSD.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231108051222.1275306-3-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>

On 11/7/23 9:00 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
> 
> Right now, gdbsupport/common-regcache.h contains two abstractons for a
> regcache.  An opaque type `regcache` (gdb and gdbserver both have their
> own regcache that is the concrete version of this) and an abstract base
> class `reg_buffer_common`, that is the base of regcaches on both sides.
> These abstractions allow code to be written for both gdb and gdbserver,
> for instance in the gdb/arch sub-directory.
> 
> However, having two
> different abstractions is impractical.  If some common code has a regcache,
> and wants to use an operation defined on reg_buffer_common, it can't.
> It would be better to have just one.  Change all instances of `regcache
> *` in gdbsupport/common-regcache.h to be `reg_buffer_common *`, then fix
> fallouts.
> 
> Implementations in gdb and gdbserver now need to down-cast (using
> gdb::checked_static_cast) from reg_buffer_common to their concrete
> regcache type.  Some of them could be avoided by changing free functions
> (like regcache_register_size) to be virtual methods on
> reg_buffer_common.  I tried it, it seems to work, but I did not include
> it in this series to avoid adding unnecessary changes.

I agree that just using reg_buffer_common in shared code is cleaner.
Adding more virtual methods to remove static_casts in a followup seems
sensible, but definitely fine to defer that to a separate followup.

Reviewed-by: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

-- 
John Baldwin


  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-11 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-08  5:00 [PATCH 00/24] Fix reading and writing pseudo registers in non-current frames Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 01/24] gdb: don't handle i386 k registers as pseudo registers Simon Marchi
2023-11-11 19:29   ` John Baldwin
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 02/24] gdb: use reg_buffer_common throughout gdbsupport/common-regcache.h Simon Marchi
2023-11-11 19:42   ` John Baldwin [this message]
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 03/24] gdb: make store_integer take an array_view Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 04/24] gdb: simplify conditions in regcache::{read,write,raw_collect,raw_supply}_part Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 05/24] gdb: change regcache interface to use array_view Simon Marchi
2023-11-13 13:43   ` Andrew Burgess
2023-11-13 14:00     ` Andrew Burgess
2023-11-13 16:47       ` Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 06/24] gdb: fix bugs in {get,put}_frame_register_bytes Simon Marchi
2023-11-13 15:00   ` Andrew Burgess
2023-11-13 19:51     ` Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 07/24] gdb: make put_frame_register take an array_view Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 08/24] gdb: change value_of_register and value_of_register_lazy to take the next frame Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 09/24] gdb: remove frame_register Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 10/24] gdb: make put_frame_register take the next frame Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 11/24] gdb: make put_frame_register_bytes " Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 12/24] gdb: make get_frame_register_bytes " Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 13/24] gdb: add value::allocate_register Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 14/24] gdb: read pseudo register through frame Simon Marchi
2023-11-11 20:11   ` John Baldwin
2023-11-08  5:00 ` [PATCH 15/24] gdb: change parameter name in frame_unwind_register_unsigned declaration Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:01 ` [PATCH 16/24] gdb: rename gdbarch_pseudo_register_write to gdbarch_deprecated_pseudo_register_write Simon Marchi
2023-11-14 12:12   ` Andrew Burgess
2023-11-14 15:16     ` Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:01 ` [PATCH 17/24] gdb: add gdbarch_pseudo_register_write that takes a frame Simon Marchi
2023-11-14 12:20   ` Andrew Burgess
2023-11-14 15:20     ` Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:01 ` [PATCH 18/24] gdb: migrate i386 and amd64 to the new gdbarch_pseudo_register_write Simon Marchi
2023-11-11 20:16   ` John Baldwin
2023-11-13  2:59     ` Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:01 ` [PATCH 19/24] gdb: make aarch64_za_offsets_from_regnum return za_offsets Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:01 ` [PATCH 20/24] gdb: add missing raw register read in aarch64_sme_pseudo_register_write Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:01 ` [PATCH 21/24] gdb: migrate aarch64 to new gdbarch_pseudo_register_write Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:01 ` [PATCH 22/24] gdb: migrate arm to gdbarch_pseudo_register_read_value Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:01 ` [PATCH 23/24] gdb: migrate arm to new gdbarch_pseudo_register_write Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:01 ` [PATCH 24/24] gdb/testsuite: add tests for unwinding of pseudo registers Simon Marchi
2023-11-08  5:16 ` [PATCH 00/24] Fix reading and writing pseudo registers in non-current frames Simon Marchi
2023-11-09  3:05   ` Simon Marchi
2023-11-08 11:57 ` Luis Machado
2023-11-08 15:47   ` Simon Marchi
2023-11-08 17:08     ` Luis Machado
2023-11-08 19:34       ` Simon Marchi
2023-11-09 19:04         ` Simon Marchi
2023-11-13 13:10           ` Luis Machado
2023-11-13 15:08             ` Luis Machado
2023-11-11 20:26 ` John Baldwin
2023-11-13  3:03   ` Simon Marchi
2023-12-01 16:27 Simon Marchi
2023-12-01 16:27 ` [PATCH 02/24] gdb: use reg_buffer_common throughout gdbsupport/common-regcache.h Simon Marchi

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