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| author | Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com> | 2004-06-13 13:42:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com> | 2004-06-13 13:42:33 +0000 |
| commit | 97092415597fbfb41f2c028e95b895966d52996f (patch) | |
| tree | b53e78f0831b3ea92d27a9852eee8aa60944f4be /gdb/doc | |
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Index: ChangeLog
2004-06-13 Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
* gdbarch.sh (RETURN_VALUE_ON_STACK): Delete method.
* gdbarch.h, gdbarch.c: Re-generate.
* m68hc11-tdep.c (m68hc11_return_value_on_stack): Delete function.
(m68hc11_use_struct_convention): Delete function.
(m68hc11_extract_struct_value_address): Delete function.
(m68hc11_return_value): New function.
(m68hc11_gdbarch_init): Instead of store_return_value,
extract_return_value, return_value_on_stack,
deprecated_extract_struct_value_address and use_struct_convention,
set return_value.
* values.c (using_struct_return): Do not call
RETURN_VALUE_ON_STACK.
* arch-utils.h (generic_return_value_on_stack_not): Delete
declaration.
* arch-utils.c (generic_return_value_on_stack_not): Delete
function.
Index: doc/ChangeLog
2004-06-13 Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
* gdbint.texinfo (Target Architecture Definition): Delete
description of RETURN_VALUE_ON_STACK.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo | 37 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index c97de03..7eb2a6c 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-06-13 Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> + + * gdbint.texinfo (Target Architecture Definition): Delete + description of RETURN_VALUE_ON_STACK. + 2004-06-09 Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> * gdbint.texinfo (Native Debugging): Restore "@table @code" diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo index 047b801..e85a2c7 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo @@ -3503,43 +3503,6 @@ form. Return the appropriate register set for a core file section with name @var{sect_name} and size @var{sect_size}. - -@item RETURN_VALUE_ON_STACK(@var{type}) -@findex RETURN_VALUE_ON_STACK -@cindex returning structures by value -@cindex structures, returning by value - -Return non-zero if values of type TYPE are returned on the stack, using -the ``struct convention'' (i.e., the caller provides a pointer to a -buffer in which the callee should store the return value). This -controls how the @samp{finish} command finds a function's return value, -and whether an inferior function call reserves space on the stack for -the return value. - -The full logic @value{GDBN} uses here is kind of odd. - -@itemize @bullet -@item -If the type being returned by value is not a structure, union, or array, -and @code{RETURN_VALUE_ON_STACK} returns zero, then @value{GDBN} -concludes the value is not returned using the struct convention. - -@item -Otherwise, @value{GDBN} calls @code{USE_STRUCT_CONVENTION} (see below). -If that returns non-zero, @value{GDBN} assumes the struct convention is -in use. -@end itemize - -In other words, to indicate that a given type is returned by value using -the struct convention, that type must be either a struct, union, array, -or something @code{RETURN_VALUE_ON_STACK} likes, @emph{and} something -that @code{USE_STRUCT_CONVENTION} likes. - -Note that, in C and C@t{++}, arrays are never returned by value. In those -languages, these predicates will always see a pointer type, never an -array type. All the references above to arrays being returned by value -apply only to other languages. - @item SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P() @findex SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P Define this as 1 if the target does not have a hardware single-step |