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Re: utils.c: Sign-extend addresses if required by the target
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Nigel Stephens <nigel at mips dot com>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at linux-mips dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:37:44 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: utils.c: Sign-extend addresses if required by the target
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0711221606400.15819@perivale.mips.com> <20071216213324.GB2618@caradoc.them.org>
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> OK. This routine is used by MI, but should not be - a long term TODO
> item is to change the way we present frame IDs to MI frontends to not
> be based on the stack pointer, and then its use will go away. But
> that's not going to happen too soon.
What about Insight? Not that I would die for it, but the function is
called from a few places in gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-{cmds,stack,varobj}.c and
given the amount of development done on Insight these days I would imagine
these uses are not going to go away anytime soon.
Thanks for the review.
Maciej