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FYI. -----Forwarded message from Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>----- Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA07973 for <jsm@cygnus.com>; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:03:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.221.146]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11214 for <jsm@cygnus.com>; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:59:58 +0100 (MET) Received: by mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.5/SMI-4.1) id XAA00334; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:53:34 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:53:34 +0100 Message-Id: <199801292253.XAA00334@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> From: Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> To: jsm@cygnus.com Subject: gdb 4.17, Linux, and the 387 X-Emacs: Emacs 20.2 (with raw setting) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI MIME-Edit 0.98 - "Sodani") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Jason, One think that should definitely be in gdb 4.17 is support for the x86 FPU on Linux. There are unfortunately some confusions around that (as 2.0 and 2.1 have different ptrace interfaces in that area), but it has more or less been decided to use Bill Metzenthen's interface. The patches are at http://www.suburbia.net/~billm/floating-point/gdb/gdb.html. I understand that you can't just take them, and neither can I contribute them. In case Bill does not contribute them, I'm willing to produce another patch from scratch. I think that FPU access can be reasonably isolated to not break anything else. One issue is whether there should be a i386linux-nat.c. Please let me know what you think about all this, and what the deadline for contributing these patches would be. Regards, Martin -----End of forwarded message-----