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Re: RFA: distinguish between pointers and addresses
- To: eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il
- Subject: Re: RFA: distinguish between pointers and addresses
- From: Dmitry Sivachenko <dima at Chg dot RU>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:37:05 +0400 (MSD)
- CC: jimb at zwingli dot cygnus dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, law at cygnus dot com
- References: <200004102022.PAA26368@zwingli.cygnus.com> <200004111134.HAA03852@indy.delorie.com>
> + To cope with architectures like this --- the D10V is not the only one!
> + --- GDB tries to distinguish between @code{addresses}, which are byte
> + numbers, and @code{pointers}, which are the target's representation of
<snip>
> + This yields an address
> + appropriate GDB can use to read target memory, disassemble, etc.
Also consider using @value{GDBN} instead of 'GDB'. :)
--dima