From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:28:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (SWIWrite0): Catch big-endian bug when printing characters
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0d9fd8f1d01dd162bb0296f3b0815e1e9c43a5b9;p=binutils-gdb.git

(SWIWrite0): Catch big-endian bug when printing characters
---

diff --git a/sim/arm/ChangeLog b/sim/arm/ChangeLog
index 90cc64fa78d..5e4b316ca86 100644
--- a/sim/arm/ChangeLog
+++ b/sim/arm/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-03-02  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* armos.c (SWIWrite0): Catch big-endian bug when printing
+	characters.
+
 2003-02-27  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@redhat.com>
 
 	* wrapper.c (sim_create_inferior, sim_open): Rename _bfd to bfd.
diff --git a/sim/arm/armos.c b/sim/arm/armos.c
index c4cb0517560..04916d6ad72 100644
--- a/sim/arm/armos.c
+++ b/sim/arm/armos.c
@@ -274,7 +274,13 @@ SWIWrite0 (ARMul_State * state, ARMword addr)
   struct OSblock *OSptr = (struct OSblock *) state->OSptr;
 
   while ((temp = ARMul_SafeReadByte (state, addr++)) != 0)
-    (void) sim_callback->write_stdout (sim_callback, (char *) &temp, 1);
+    {
+      char buffer = temp;
+      /* Note - we cannot just cast 'temp' to a (char *) here,
+	 since on a big-endian host the byte value will end
+	 up in the wrong place and a nul character will be printed.  */
+      (void) sim_callback->write_stdout (sim_callback, & buffer, 1);
+    }
 
   OSptr->ErrorNo = sim_callback->get_errno (sim_callback);
 }