Re: ARM PATCH fix extract_return_value and store_return_value

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>]

> > 2002-12-14  Richard Earnshaw  <rearnsha@arm.com>
> > 
> >         * arm-tdep.c (convert_from_extended): New argument to hold the
> >         type of floating point result we want to convert to.  Make input
> >         argument const.  Fix all callers.
> >         (convert_to_extended): Similarly.
> >         (arm_extract_return_value): Now takes a regcache argument.  Change
> >         code to use regcache accessor functions.  Correctly extract
> >         smaller-than-word results on big-endian machines.
> >         (arm_store_return_value): Now takes a regcache argument.  Change
> >         code to use regcache accessor functions.  Correctly zero/sign extend
> >         smaller than word results before storing into r0.
> >         (arm_gdbarch_init): Register new-style extract_return_value and
> >         store_return_value functions.
> 
> Hi Richard, 
> 
> I can report that these
> changes do fix two fails for big-endian running callfuncs.exp.
> One of the fails was returning a one-byte struct, the other
> a two-byte struct.   There were no other fails in callfuncs.exp.

Excellent.  Thanks for doing the tests.

> As is, they conflict with some of Elena's
> vector changes, but I've massaged them into closer conformance
> with a more recent revision.  Here's my merged patch (not entirely
> up to date, but more recent than what appears here).

I installed the patches to the public tree back in December, so these 
conflicts must relate to some internal version you are testing on.

R.