From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18560 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2003 21:04:03 -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 18547 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2003 21:04:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.187.230.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 2003 21:04:02 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43012B11; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:40:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E6F8D38.6030207@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:04:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Paul Koning , mec@shout.net, stcarrez@nerim.fr, brobecker@gnat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, kettenis@chello.nl Subject: Re: 8-byte register values on a 32-bit machine References: <200303021659.h22Gxc908446@duracef.shout.net> <3E6F53B3.6010803@redhat.com> <20030312155116.GA3669@nevyn.them.org> <3E6F7C6F.2030805@redhat.com> <20030312183517.GA26765@nevyn.them.org> <15983.36589.555000.415537@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030312185952.GA27508@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00200.txt.bz2 > > I don't know if it would break or not. > > >> If that's not the current proposal, could you reword it to help >> eliminate the confusion over what you intend? > > > No one is proposing to leave it broken. To pull up an example from > earlier in the thread, Andrew broke x86-64 when working on the frame > changes. It was an accident, and eventually fixed (by Michal Ludvig, I > might add). I apparently broke long long (in registers) in some of my > DWARF-2 support patches. I'm working to fix it. I'm only one person > and I only have so much time. For this `long long' case, can a simple local tweak that restores existing behavior (while the new code is finished / tested). That way the pressure is off you to get this stuff finished quickly instead of cleanly. Andrew PS: Frames vs MIPS is a better example.