From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4674 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2003 21:01:20 -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 4667 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2003 21:01:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (146.82.138.56) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 2003 21:01:20 -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 19WjJQ-00041W-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:02:17 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19WjIL-00030b-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:01:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:01:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch,rfc,6] Revert to legacy when REGISTER_BYTE Message-ID: <20030629210107.GC32279@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3EFF4F7C.9060104@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EFF4F7C.9060104@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00868.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 04:43:40PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Sigh, > > This patch changes the regcache so that, when REGISTER_BYTE or > REGISTER_RAW_SIZE are present, the old style legacy regcache layout is used. > > This will stop those regcache assertion failures. Fixing the problem > (especially for MIPS) will just get too messy for the branch :-( > > My thought is to commit this to 6.0 branch, while on the mainline delete > REGISTER_BYTE and REGISTER_RAW_SIZE and just wear the consequences ... > > comments and/or suggestions? > Andrew Makes sense to me. You've been making steady progress on this problem, and it looks like it's just finally time to kill REGISTER_BYTE. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer