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Re: [RFA] W.I.P. AltiVec ppc registers support.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:43:56PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >>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.)
>
> No. The core stuff would need to be kicked out of *-nat.c and into
> *-core.c and/or *-greg.c and/or ??? The packing/unpacking of a reg-set
> is technically only target dependant - debugging a core file from an
> embedded target.
>
> Daniel, how are the changes you were eluding to comming along?
Back burner to C++. When I have polished off the v3 ABI stuff I'll be
back to this thread.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer