Re: [RFC] Re: Proposed fix to gdb for printing 64-bit addresses

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

> Than there is no need for different handling of 32/64b archs.


Hmm, what interesting timing, note the patch:


http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-05/msg00114.html

in particular:

> There are, I think, several good follow-on patches:
> 
> 	local_address_string{,_custom}()
> 		to handle the address case
> 		Get rid of all those if (TARGET_ADDR_BIT) ... else ...
> 

[I'm not the cli maintainer so it isn't my call]

I suspect it would be better to retain the current behavour - print all 
TARGET_ADDR_BITs of a core address but then let the user override that 
using a ``set ...'' command (like `set output-radix').  If there is a 
``local_address_string()'' function then that is much easier.

Part of the intent of ui_out_field_core_addr() was to address this - 
have one place determining the way that addresses were displayed so that 
it could be changed uniformly across all of GDB.

Andrew