Re: prgregset_t vs gdb_gregset_t on Linux: not the same!

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:59:07PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:27:30PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > In proc-service.c, we call fill_gregset and supply_gregset with a
> > prgregset_t cast to a gdb_gregset_t *.  The problem is, they really are
> > different.  We can mostly get away with this, because in almost all cases
> > glibc won't do anything with the gregset except pass it back to gdb again
> > (if the process has terminated, it will memset something the size of a
> > prgregset_t, though...).
> 
> The matching question here is that core-regset.c's fetch_core_registers
> calls supply_gregset with a gregset_t, but supply_gregset is prototyped
> with a gdb_gregset_t.  That doesn't work very well either.

I believe your Linux/MIPS patch is wrong. Please follow the examples in
linux/alpha, linux/i386 and linux/ppc. Basically, you have to include
config/tm-linux.h and config/nm-linux.h from the linux/mips header
files. But in order to do that, please make sure you do

#include <nm-linux.h>
#include <tm-linux.h>

not

#include "nm-linux.h"
#include "tm-linux.h"

Otherwise, you may not get the header files you want since mips has
both liltle and big endians. Once you have done that, your problem
should go away.



H.J.