From: Luis Machado <luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-ppc 5/5] Add VSX doc bits
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218814096.8946.39.camel@gargoyle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217016956.29012.79.camel@gargoyle>
Hi Eli,
What do you think about the doc bits for this one?
Regards,
Luis
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 17:15 -0300, Luis Machado wrote:
> Last, but not the least, this adds some documentation about the new
> register set. It's not very descriptive, but as the patches may change a
> bit, i'll leave this one to the end. It'll probably require a NEWS entry
> as well.
>
> ---
> 2008-07-25 Luis Machado <luisgpm@br.ibm.com>
>
> * doc/gdb.texinfo: Updated documentation with new support info.
>
> Index: gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> ===================================================================
> --- gdb.orig/doc/gdb.texinfo 2008-07-23 09:28:06.000000000 -0700
> +++ gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 2008-07-23 09:31:44.000000000 -0700
> @@ -16210,6 +16210,9 @@
> by joining the even/odd register pairs @code{f0} and @code{f1} for @code{$dl0},
> @code{f2} and @code{f3} for @code{$dl1} and so on.
>
> +For POWER7 processors, GDB provides a new set of pseudo-registers, the 64-bit
> +wide Extended Floating Point Registers (@samp{f32} through @samp{f63}).
> +
>
> @node Controlling GDB
> @chapter Controlling @value{GDBN}
> @@ -27406,6 +27409,13 @@
> contain registers @samp{vr0} through @samp{vr31}, @samp{vscr},
> and @samp{vrsave}.
>
> +The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx} feature is optional. It should
> +contain registers @samp{vs0h} through @samp{vs31h}. @value{GDBN}
> +will combine these registers with the floating point registers
> +(@samp{f0} through @samp{f31}) and the altivec registers (@samp{vr0}
> +through @samp{vr31}} to present the 128-bit wide registers @samp{vs0}
> +through @samp{vs63}, the new set of vector registers for POWER7.
> +
> The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.spe} feature is optional. It should
> contain registers @samp{ev0h} through @samp{ev31h}, @samp{acc}, and
> @samp{spefscr}. SPE targets should provide 32-bit registers in
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-15 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-25 20:16 Luis Machado
2008-08-15 15:29 ` Luis Machado [this message]
2008-08-15 15:39 ` Stan Shebs
2008-08-15 15:52 ` Luis Machado
2008-08-15 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-15 18:14 ` Luis Machado
2008-08-15 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-18 16:02 ` Luis Machado
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