Re: minutes of 2007-09-19 meeting

[Teresa Thomas <tthomas at redhat dot com>]

> Teresa:
> OP_Piece: it's working for registers and memory as far as we know. Not
> turned on yet. Sami reports that testing with that enabled results in
> better test results.
The location code correctly decodes the location of the values, whether 
in memory, register or with a memory split. Facing two problems with 
manipulating variable values, (1) Getting variable values does not 
return expected value in 32 bit machines though it does this for x86_64. 
Examining the memory of the task in a 32-bit machine shows that it 
contains the LSB of the value at the decoded location, but the the bytes 
that follow are random. (2) Frame's setReg does not change the value of 
the register. So setting values is possible in memory but not regs.
Its probably not a good idea to enable the new location code atleast 
till (1) is fixed.