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[RFA] valops.c: don't coerce vectors.
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:46:56 -0400
- Subject: [RFA] valops.c: don't coerce vectors.
I hope this is the last of the AltiVec series.
Elena
2002-04-29 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
* valops.c (value_arg_coerce): Don't coerce arrays to pointers if
we are dealing with vectors.
Index: valops.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/uberbaum/gdb/valops.c,v
retrieving revision 1.55
diff -u -p -r1.55 valops.c
--- valops.c 26 Apr 2002 03:37:42 -0000 1.55
+++ valops.c 29 Apr 2002 21:45:55 -0000
@@ -1190,8 +1190,12 @@ value_arg_coerce (struct value *arg, str
type = lookup_pointer_type (type);
break;
case TYPE_CODE_ARRAY:
+ /* 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 = lookup_pointer_type (TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type));
+ if (!TYPE_VECTOR (type))
+ type = lookup_pointer_type (TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type));
break;
case TYPE_CODE_UNDEF:
case TYPE_CODE_PTR: