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Re: [PATCH] Print vector registers in natural format, not hex
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:53:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Print vector registers in natural format, not hex
- References: <B4580F12-D7D9-11D6-866A-00039396EEB8@mit.edu>
Just got one nit.
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 04:41:48PM -0400, Klee Dienes wrote:
> Before:
>
> (gdb) show architecture
> The target architecture is set automatically (currently powerpc:common)
> v16_int8 = {0x60, 0x61, 0x62, 0x63, 0x64, 0x65, 0x66, 0x67, 0x40,
> 0x49, 0xf, 0xdb, 0x40, 0x2d, 0xf8, 0x54}
> After:
> v16_int8 = "`abcdefg@I\017°Z@-°ZT"
First of all, in characters
v16_int8 = {'`', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', '@', 'I', '\017', '°', 'Z', '@', '-', '°', 'Z', 'T'}
is more natural to me. It's a vector of chars, not a string.
Secondly, this is an 'int8' type. Are characters really the way to go?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer