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[RFA] Don't coerce arrays if they're vectors.
- From: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: ezannoni at redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:24:48 -0700
- Subject: [RFA] Don't coerce arrays if they're vectors.
This seem reasonable to you vector-savvy folk?
Michael
2002-05-16 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
* valops.c (value_cast): Don't coerce arrays if they're vectors.
Index: valops.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/valops.c,v
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -p -r1.59 valops.c
*** valops.c 13 May 2002 14:00:36 -0000 1.59
--- valops.c 16 May 2002 22:32:40 -0000
*************** value_cast (struct type *type, struct va
*** 210,217 ****
}
}
if (current_language->c_style_arrays
! && TYPE_CODE (type2) == TYPE_CODE_ARRAY)
arg2 = value_coerce_array (arg2);
if (TYPE_CODE (type2) == TYPE_CODE_FUNC)
--- 210,221 ----
}
}
+ /* Arrays are coerced to pointers to their first element, unless
+ they are vectors, in which case we want to leave them alone,
+ because they are passed by value. */
if (current_language->c_style_arrays
! && TYPE_CODE (type2) == TYPE_CODE_ARRAY
! && !TYPE_VECTOR (type2))
arg2 = value_coerce_array (arg2);
if (TYPE_CODE (type2) == TYPE_CODE_FUNC)