* defs.h (gdb_byte): New typedef. Tweak comments.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index b022cbfcadd8f50336433f7f530ca37769804fb2..8041eddba3472c8aeb4b690be86d9b6a65c56883 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2005-05-08  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
 
+       * defs.h (gdb_byte): New typedef.  Tweak comments.
+
        * target.h (target_link): Remove prototype.
        * target.c (target_link): Remove function.
        * symfile.c: Remove comment about rombug.

diff --git a/gdb/defs.h b/gdb/defs.h
index 30178a4328e6c38ccd78a9e8ccd5d3f3d58b89e1..dcb9eb28d4a15f2226cbca86089383d545aa9657 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/defs.h
+++ b/gdb/defs.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* *INDENT-OFF* */ /* ATTR_FORMAT confuses indent, avoid running it for now */
 /* Basic, host-specific, and target-specific definitions for GDB.
    Copyright 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
-   1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
+   1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
    Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This file is part of GDB.
@@ -63,15 +63,16 @@
 
 #include "libiberty.h"
 
-/* For BFD64 and bfd_vma.  */
+/* Rather than duplicate all the logic in BFD for figuring out what
+   types to use (which can be pretty complicated), symply define them
+   in terms of the corresponding type from BFD.  */
+
 #include "bfd.h"
 
-/* An address in the program being debugged.  Host byte order.  Rather
-   than duplicate all the logic in BFD which figures out what type
-   this is (long, long long, etc.) and whether it needs to be 64
-   bits (the host/target interactions are subtle), we just use
-   bfd_vma.  */
+/* A byte from the program being debugged.  */
+typedef bfd_byte gdb_byte;
 
+/* An address in the program being debugged.  Host byte order.  */
 typedef bfd_vma CORE_ADDR;
 
 /* This is to make sure that LONGEST is at least as big as CORE_ADDR.  */