Re: Misaligned read/write of memory by GDB

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>]

Hi -


> >OK, but did you consider an alternate of having a memory target that
> >is unable to handle an unaligned access return sid::bus::misaligned,
> >and then have gdb back down to byte-by-byte access?
> >
> I thought about the possibility of fixing existing memory targets to 
> handle misaligned access, either by implementing support, returning 
> sid::bus::misaligned, or whatever else might be appropriate. 

How many offenders (that did neither) did you encounter?

> However it occurred to me that this would require implementors of all
> future memory targets to be aware of potential GDB access of this
> type. [...]

True, except that such accesses could originate elsewhere - a simulated
CPU, or a gloss component, for example.


- FChE

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