From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14202 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2003 15:44:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14140 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2003 15:44:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (146.82.138.56) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Jun 2003 15:44:01 -0000 Received: from dsl093-172-017.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.172.17] helo=nevyn.them.org ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19RwA5-000326-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:44:49 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19Rw9G-0007PM-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:43:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:44:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch rfc] Add NUM_REGS pseudo regs to MIPS Message-ID: <20030616154357.GA21983@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3EEDE3BE.8070207@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EEDE3BE.8070207@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00535.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:35:26AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Hello, > > Per my last post to an old thread. This adds NUM_REGS pseudo registers > to the MIPS. These pseudo registers, unlike their raw counterparts are > `sane'. They have sensible sizes, offsets, types, ... > > The intent here is to put some distance between the MIPS's messed up raw > register buffer and the ABI registers. As it stands, it doesn't get > save/restore right (it works but not by using the ABI registers). That > can follow. > > Tested on mips-elf. > > thoughts? Looks reasonable... I'm not all that fond of it, but it's the best way forward I've seen. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer