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Re: GDB 6.8.92 available for testing
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:23:31 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I think that would be a bad idea since size_t will be a 64-bit type on
> 64-bit hosts. This will increase memory usage on 6-bit hosts.
We do need 64-bit target TYPE_LENGTH support. There exist >2GB debuginfos:
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/rpms/gdb/devel/gdb-6.3-bz231832-obstack-2gb.patch?view=co
and I guess some HPC (High Performance Computing) is already exceeding it for
runtime data object size. With dynamic data type sizes
(archer-jankratochvil-vla) such current dynamic size is stored in TYPE_LENGTH.
Just it should not be size_t but target_size_t. Yes, it should be CORE_ADDR.
Regards,
Jan