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Re: [patch,rfc,6] Revert to legacy when REGISTER_BYTE
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:01:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: [patch,rfc,6] Revert to legacy when REGISTER_BYTE
- References: <3EFF4F7C.9060104@redhat.com>
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 04:43:40PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Sigh,
>
> This patch changes the regcache so that, when REGISTER_BYTE or
> REGISTER_RAW_SIZE are present, the old style legacy regcache layout is used.
>
> This will stop those regcache assertion failures. Fixing the problem
> (especially for MIPS) will just get too messy for the branch :-(
>
> My thought is to commit this to 6.0 branch, while on the mainline delete
> REGISTER_BYTE and REGISTER_RAW_SIZE and just wear the consequences ...
>
> comments and/or suggestions?
> Andrew
Makes sense to me. You've been making steady progress on this problem,
and it looks like it's just finally time to kill REGISTER_BYTE.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer