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Re: GDB 6.8.92 available for testing


> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:14:47 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> > However, the idiom:
> > 
> >   int len = TYPE_LENGTH(...);
> > 
> >   memcpy(..., ..., len);
> > 
> > is used in several other places in the GDB tree.  I really think that
> > we should fix all these cases; not just this one.
> 
> Perhaps the type of length in struct type should be changed to size_t?

I think that would be a bad idea since size_t will be a 64-bit type on
64-bit hosts.  This will increase memory usage on 6-bit hosts.


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