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Re: [RFA] W.I.P. AltiVec ppc registers support.
On Nov 29, 6:03pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >> Unfortunately not. I thought the same, until I remembered about core
> > > > file debugging. That function is called by fetch_core_registers() in
> > > > core-aout.c.
> > > > Hmm... I wonder if Linux/PPC even needs this function in core-aout.c.
> > > Daniel J. is the expert on this stuff. Daniel, doesn't Linux/PPC use
> > > core-regset.c instead?
> > > Whoops, yes, you are right. False alarm.
>
> So just the core code needs to have a hard-wired (non native header) way
> of unpacking Altivec registers (if they are found?)?
I'm guessing we'll end up having to add fetch_core_registers() and
company to ppc-linux-nat.c. That way neither core-regset.c nor
core-aout.c will be used for a native Linux/PPC build. (See
fetch_core_registers() in i386-linux-nat.c as an example.)
Kevin