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Re: [PATCH-ppc 0/5] Add feature description for new VSX register set
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 21:01 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Luis Machado wrote:
> > This is a patch series to enable POWER7 VSX register set support in GDB.
> > The VSX registers' layout is as follows:
>
> Will IBM be making appropriate proposals regarding these registers in the
> Power.org ABI working group? The obvious things that need defining
> include DWARF debug/unwind information handling of the registers, and
> what's call-saved / call-clobbered, plus ABI handling of any new
> C-language datatypes.
Regarding call-saved / call-clobbered there's no option really. VSX
registers follow the saved-ness of the registers they overlap with
(either floating point or altivec).
Regarding the other points, I assume so. :-) We can ask around here, to
double-check.
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
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