Right now, gdbsupport/common-regcache.h contains two abstractons for a
regcache. An opaque type `regcache` (gdb and gdbserver both have their
own regcache that is the concrete version of this) and an abstract base
class `reg_buffer_common`, that is the base of regcaches on both sides.
These abstractions allow code to be written for both gdb and gdbserver,
for instance in the gdb/arch sub-directory.
However, having two
different abstractions is impractical. If some common code has a regcache,
and wants to use an operation defined on reg_buffer_common, it can't.
It would be better to have just one. Change all instances of `regcache
*` in gdbsupport/common-regcache.h to be `reg_buffer_common *`, then fix
fallouts.
Implementations in gdb and gdbserver now need to down-cast (using
gdb::checked_static_cast) from reg_buffer_common to their concrete
regcache type. Some of them could be avoided by changing free functions
(like regcache_register_size) to be virtual methods on
reg_buffer_common. I tried it, it seems to work, but I did not include
it in this series to avoid adding unnecessary changes.
Change-Id: Ia5503adb6b5509a0f4604bd2a68b4642cc5283fd
Reviewed-by: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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