Re: [RFA] W.I.P. AltiVec ppc registers support.

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>]

On Nov 29,  6:03pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> >> 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?)?

I'm guessing we'll end up having to add fetch_core_registers() and
company to ppc-linux-nat.c.  That way neither core-regset.c nor
core-aout.c will be used for a native Linux/PPC build.  (See
fetch_core_registers() in i386-linux-nat.c as an example.)

Kevin