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Re: [RFC] Re: Proposed fix to gdb for printing 64-bit addresses
- From: Michal Ludvig <mludvig at suse dot cz>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 17:54:04 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Re: Proposed fix to gdb for printing 64-bit addresses
- Organization: SuSE CR
- References: <3CCD8E01.2020500@model.com> <3CD7D446.5020800@suse.cz> <20020507145558.GB17670@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:19:02PM +0200, Michal Ludvig wrote:
>>I propose to change the format string from "016l" to just "l" so that
>>only valid digits will be printed:
>>#0 0x4000d3 in cpyptrs () at dwarf.c:11
>>#1 0x4000f8 in func () at dwarf.c:19
>
> I'd rather not do that, actually; I find it very confusing when a
> seven-digit hex number is printed (I assume it is an eight-digit one).
> It might be appropriate to print just eight digits of low 64-bit
> addresses... I don't feel too strongly about this issue, though.
So what about changing 'strcpy(addstr, local_hex_string_custom((unsigned
long) address, "016l"))' to 'sprintf(addstr, "%010p", address)' ?
This would print _at_least_ 8 digits, but wouldn't cut it down when the
number is longer.
Michal Ludvig
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