From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28382 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2001 23:03:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28333 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 23:03:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (216.138.202.10) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2001 23:03:48 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC793DE8; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:03:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C06BED3.4070209@cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:54:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20011020 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Elena Zannoni Cc: Kevin Buettner , Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] W.I.P. AltiVec ppc registers support. References: <15365.39495.801289.497931@krustylu.cygnus.com> <1011129183830.ZM18856@ocotillo.lan> <15366.44991.616576.411278@krustylu.cygnus.com> <1011129222000.ZM19585@ocotillo.lan> <15366.47960.711736.518863@krustylu.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00366.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20011120085400.FB7znsXWf1FAIfR0__tiTASBBMUHmFH--0l0-LocwBk@z> >> Unfortunately not. I thought the same, until I remembered about core > > > file debugging. That function is called by fetch_core_registers() in > > > core-aout.c. > > > Hmm... I wonder if Linux/PPC even needs this function in core-aout.c. > > Daniel J. is the expert on this stuff. Daniel, doesn't Linux/PPC use > > core-regset.c instead? > > Whoops, yes, you are right. False alarm. So just the core code needs to have a hard-wired (non native header) way of unpacking Altivec registers (if they are found?)? Andrew