From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Include the fs_base and gs_base registers in amd64 target descriptions.
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1947436.992bOZrjK6@ralph.baldwin.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86shi3qu5m.fsf@gmail.com>
On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 09:01:25 AM Yao Qi wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
> > This permits these registers to be used with non-Linux targets.
>
> Some GDBserver uses these target description files, like
> x86_64-*-mingw*, after this change, GDBserver will reply GDB the target
> description including "64bit-segments.xml". Then, GDB will request the
> contents of 64bit-segments.xml from GDBserver, looks 64bit-segments.xml
> is already builtin in GDBserver, so there isn't an issue here.
>
> The patch is good to me.
>
> P.S. this is a good example to show the inflexibility in current target
> description. After we change it to my new approach of target
> description, this change will be just two or three lines :)
Agreed. :) The combinatorics with XSAVE on x86 is especially bad.
--
John Baldwin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-11 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-27 22:50 [PATCH 0/2] Support fs_base and gs_base for native FreeBSD/amd64 John Baldwin
2017-06-27 22:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] Include the fs_base and gs_base registers in amd64 target descriptions John Baldwin
2017-07-11 8:03 ` Yao Qi
2017-07-11 16:26 ` John Baldwin [this message]
2017-07-12 12:16 ` Phil Muldoon
[not found] ` <CAH=s-PPM7u=f=_4k+=wLvv4z822VJRqbkxrsSv9C0eKqX-tMCA@mail.gmail.com>
2017-07-12 13:51 ` Simon Marchi
2017-07-12 20:03 ` John Baldwin
2017-07-13 16:55 ` Yao Qi
2017-07-13 17:04 ` John Baldwin
2017-07-13 18:40 ` Pedro Alves
2017-07-13 19:59 ` Pedro Alves
2017-07-12 16:23 ` Keith Seitz
2017-06-27 22:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] Support the fs_base and gs_base registers on FreeBSD/amd64 native processes John Baldwin
2017-07-11 8:09 ` Yao Qi
2017-07-11 7:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] Support fs_base and gs_base for native FreeBSD/amd64 Yao Qi
2017-07-11 16:26 ` John Baldwin
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