Re: [RFC] x86-64 targeted gdb and corefiles

[Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>]

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:40:29PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

 > Seconded; perhaps with all the attention cross cores have been getting
 > lately it's time for a better framework for this?  I was thinking
 > something like:
 > 
 > struct regset_handler {
 >   enum type regset_kind; /* general, FP, extended */
 >   int size;
 >   void (*supply)();
 >   void (*fetch)();
 > };
 > 
 > See gdbserver's regset handling for a more concrete example of this. 
 > This could be used to kill all the duplicate copies of core-regset.c
 > that have made their way into i386 and powerpc tdep files.

Yah, probably not a bad idea.  My only concern would be how do you
register and look up these regset handlers.  They need to be tied
to the OS ABI somehow.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>