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Re: PowerPC: "set architecture" -> "Architecture not recognized" ?


On Wednesday, November 19 2014, Pedro Alves wrote:

> On 11/18/2014 08:20 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>
>>>> and in
>>>> +	# some systems (PowerPC, for example), if we load a binary
>>>> +	# there is no way to set other architecture.
>>>
>>> ... eh.  I wasn't aware of that.  What does GDB say?
>> 
>> Here is what I see on a Fedora 20 PPC64 box:
>> 
>>   (gdb) set architecture 
>>   Requires an argument. Valid arguments are rs6000:6000, rs6000:rs1,
>>   rs6000:rsc, rs6000:rs2, powerpc:common64, powerpc:common, powerpc:603,
>>   powerpc:EC603e, powerpc:604, powerpc:403, powerpc:601, powerpc:620,
>>   powerpc:630, powerpc:a35, powerpc:rs64ii, powerpc:rs64iii, powerpc:7400,
>>   powerpc:e500, powerpc:e500mc, powerpc:e500mc64, powerpc:MPC8XX,
>>   powerpc:750, powerpc:titan, powerpc:vle, powerpc:e5500, powerpc:e6500,
>>   auto.
>>   (gdb) set architecture powerpc:common
>>   Architecture `powerpc:common' not recognized.
>
> Eh, this has the looks of a bug.  At the very least, if on purpose for
> some reason, the error string is misleading.

Yeah, that's what I thought, though I still did not investigate it.  I
plan to get to it soon, or file a bug.  Meanwhile, I believe I can check
this series in, right?

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