Re: [PATCH 5/8] Windows gdb: Prepare XState functions

[Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>]

 Am Freitag, 17. Juli 2026 um 17:04:51 MESZ hat Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de> Folgendes geschrieben:

> Am Freitag, 17. Juli 2026 um 16:41:54 MESZ hat Schimpe, Christina <christina.schimpe@intel.com> Folgendes geschrieben:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>
> > > Sent: Sonntag, 12. Juli 2026 13:32
> > > To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > > Subject: [PATCH 5/8] Windows gdb: Prepare XState functions
> > >
> > > These functions will then be used to access the XState registers.
> > > ---
> > >  gdb/nat/windows-nat.c |  31 +++++++++++  gdb/nat/windows-nat.h | 116
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 
> > For this and the following patch:  I can see that you introduced x86 specific code,
> > but used the generic windows-nat.c/.h files for it. In gdb linux code we try to keep
> > arch specific details in separate files.
> > 
> > In an earlier patch you tried to keep it separate for windows, too:
> > "Move x86 register code into x86-windows-nat.c ".
> > 
> > I am not familiar with windows specific code, but do you think moving this to an arch
> > specific file (for instance gdb/x86-windows-nat.c) is an option?
> 
> Yes, I tried keeping them separate, but these functions are also used by
> gdbserver, so they have to be in a nat/ header, which makes this a bit
> more complicated.
> 
> But I recently found out that Windows apparently also provides SVE registers
> for ARM64 with these same XState functions [1], so if we plan to support that,
> we would probably just move them back here anyways.

Of course I had to forget to include the link...

[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/205906


Hannes