Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v4] target-ppc: gdbstub allow byte swapping for reading/writing registers

[Thomas Falcon]

On 02/28/2014 11:37 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 02:51 PM, Thomas Falcon wrote:
> > +void ppc_cpu_gdb_swap_register(uint8_t *mem_buf, int n)
> > +{
> > +    int len = ppc_cpu_gdb_register_len(n);
> > +    int i = 0;
> > +    uint8_t tmp;
> > +    for (i = 0; i < len/2; i++) {
> > +        tmp = *(mem_buf + i);
> > +        *(mem_buf+i) = *(mem_buf + len - 1 - i);
> > +        *(mem_buf + len - 1 - i) = tmp;
> > +    }
> > +}
> Ew.
>
> The number of register sizes you need to handle is extremely limited.  One can
> easily use bswap32 and bswap64 for this.
>
>
> r~
Thanks for your feedback.  Did not realize there were built-in bswap 
functions for pointers.  How about this instead?

int len = ppc_cpu_gdb_register_len(n);
if (len==4) {
    bswap32s((uint32_t *)mem_buf);
} else {
    bswap64s((uint64_t *)mem_buf);
}