Re: [RFA] Define FETCH_INFERIOR_REGISTERS for ppc linux.

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>]

Kevin Buettner writes:
 > On Dec 20, 12:46pm, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > 
 > > This patch is a subset of the changes initially submitted in:
 > > 
 > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-11/msg00548.html
 > > 
 > > Nothing in this patch has to do with AltiVec registers.  I included
 > > only the part that moves the fetch/store inferior registers machinery
 > > from infptrace.c to ppc-linux-nat.c.  With that, it became possible to
 > > clean up some macros from config/powerpc/nm-linux.h and get rid of the
 > > use of core-aout.c.
 > > 
 > > Given the discussions we had in the original thread, these changes
 > > become quite straightforward. 
 > > 
 > > Tested on ppc-linux native and aix4.3 (for paranoia's sake).
 > > 
 > > OK?
 > 
 > Yes, approved.
 > 
 > One question though.  Is KERNEL_U_SIZE still needed?
 > 

It is used by the 'maint udot' command, which is available if
CHILD_XFER_MEMORY is not defined, which seems to be the case for
ppc-linux (it is defined for aix).

 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Kevin

I commited the patch.

Elena