Re: [RFA] ppc-linux-nat.c AltiVec regs ptrace

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:09:08PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
>  > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:28:27PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>  > > In case of 2.2.5 the powerpc version of the file gets installed. While
>  > > for 2.2.1 the one with the definitions for PTRACE_GETFPXREGS is installed.
>  > > 
>  > > Ok then, should we support the older version or not?
>  > > If not we have two options:
>  > > 
>  > > 1. if glibc gets a patch with the new PTRACE_GETVRREGS requests, then
>  > >    we can add another different configuration check.
>  > > 
>  > > 2. We can just rely on the run time check. Which means I have to redo
>  > >    the patch again [where is that bucket].
>  > > 
>  > > Actually doing just 2 would work also with the older version, I guess.
>  > > Unless I am missing some other subtlety. Ok I'll change it.
>  > 
>  > Sounds good to me.  Might want to submit a patch to add GETVRREGS to
>  > libc, also, I suppose...
> 
> Yes, it's probably better.
> 
> Here is a new patch.
> 
> 2002-02-20  Elena Zannoni  <ezannoni@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* ppc-linux-nat.c (PTRACE_GETVRREGS, PTRACE_SETVRREGS): Define.

I like this much better, thank you!

My only concern is that you'll have a problem when glibc does define
them; might want to conditionally define these.

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