Re: dwarf2-frame.c question for maintainers

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

> > > How come extract_typed_address, in read_reg, doesn't sign extend?
>
>
> I should have explained that. It does.  However extract_typed_address is
> incorrect because it makes the invalid assumption that sizeof(address)
> == sizeof(register).  So that has to go and be replaced with something
> like
> extract_signed_integer (buf, register_size (current_gdbarch, regnum));

You mean the builtin_type_void_data_ptr parameter to 
extract_typed_address?  Ah.

I see builtin_type_void_data_ptr dates back to 1.1 (Mark?).  It could 
instead use the register's type?

Andrew