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Re: RFA: AIX 64-bit mega-patch


On 13-Jun-2000, David Edelsohn wrote:

>If I understand the code, it looks like you are using generic
>dummy frames for PowerPC and not for "rs6000" which I think means POWER
>architecture.

Right.

>I don't understand the reason for that difference.

That's how it was before I made my changes, and I kept the status quo.
Maybe generic dummy frames can be used for POWER as well; I'll look into
it.

>Assuming the meaning of "rs6000", the hard-coded TOC offset may not be a
>problem (because POWER is only 32-bit)

Agreed.

>"PowerPC / RS6000 processor variant is ..." and "GDB knows about
>the following PowerPC and RS6000 variants ..."

Those messages are removed by the patch.

>RMS refused to allow early GCC and GDB to refer to the
>architecture as "POWER" because he did not want GNU software providing
>subliminal publicity for IBM given the spelling of the architecture name.

Ah, that's an interesting bit of history; it explains the dual use of the
term.  Maybe it'd be worth changing the nomenclature internal to
rs6000-tdep.c.

Nick

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