From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8934 invoked by alias); 25 May 2005 05:48:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8923 invoked by uid 22791); 25 May 2005 05:48:21 -0000 Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 May 2005 05:48:21 +0000 Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p108-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.108]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A108537493; Wed, 25 May 2005 17:48:18 +1200 (NZST) Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id BD15C62A99; Wed, 25 May 2005 06:48:49 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17044.4544.937299.451971@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 05:48:00 -0000 To: "M.M. Kettenis" Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Consistent format for memory addresses In-Reply-To: <7320911956265369@webhare> References: <17043.61074.262608.156551@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <7320911956265369@webhare> X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg00313.txt.bz2 > I'm all for consistency. But I think you should realize that pointers > can be 64-bit too, or even 48-bit, so your code beter not depend on a > fixed number of digits. I've only got a 32 bit machine and AFAIK the output format of CLI commands isn't precisely documented (why should it be, its for users, not frontends). The disassembly view is only one part of the frontend and, I will have to rely on bug reports to cover other architectures. For the moment, I'm just aiming at damage limitation. Nick