Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] Add AVX512 registers support to GDB.

Sturm, Michael
2014-01-14T09:01:29Z

Hi Pedro and Eli,

Sorry for the delay in answering to you, we were out for the holidays.
Thanks a lot for your review, I'll address your suggestions in the next
revision of the patch.

Hi Mark,

did you have time to review the patches?

Happy New Year to everybody!

Thanks,
Michael

On 20/12/2013 18:29, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I skimmed this (not a real review), and noticed:
>
>> +send_gdb "print have_avx512 ()\r"
>> +gdb_expect {
> Please use gdb_test_multiple instead of send_gdb/gdb_expect.
>
>> + -re ".. = 1\r\n$gdb_prompt " {
>> + pass "check whether processor supports AVX512"
>> + }
>> + -re ".. = 0\r\n$gdb_prompt " {
> Should be a pass too:
>
> pass "check whether processor supports AVX512"
>
> As the test did its job.
>
>
>> + }
>> + -re ".*$gdb_prompt $" {
>> + fail "check whether processor supports AVX512"
>> + }
>> + timeout {
>> + fail "check whether processor supports AVX512 (timeout)"
>> + }
> These last two won't be necessary then.
>
>> +}
>> +
> This:
>
>
>> + verbose "processor does not support AVX512; skipping AVX512 tests"
>> + return
> should probably instead be:
>
> unsupported "processor does not support AVX512; skipping AVX512 tests"
>
> ...
>
>> +}
>> \ No newline at end of file
> Please add one.
>

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