From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6986 invoked by alias); 7 May 2004 22:56:18 -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 6979 invoked from network); 7 May 2004 22:56:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 7 May 2004 22:56:17 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i47MuH0m003212 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 18:56:17 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i47MuHv20051 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 18:56:17 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (vpn50-64.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.64]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i47MuGOq011141; Fri, 7 May 2004 18:56:16 -0400 Received: from saguaro (saguaro.lan [192.168.64.2]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i47MuAOR005303; Fri, 7 May 2004 15:56:10 -0700 Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 22:56:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: handle missing fpregs Message-Id: <20040507155610.43b806ff@saguaro> In-Reply-To: References: <20040507131804.7c9325d6@saguaro> Organization: Red Hat Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00225.txt.bz2 On 07 May 2004 16:05:11 -0500 Jim Blandy wrote: > > > + /* On RS6000 variants that have no floating-point registers, the > > > + next two members will be -1. */ > > > > I'm not comfortable with the term "RS6000 variants" here. I'd be happier > > with "PPC variants", though that's probably not strictly correct either. > > I suppose you could just say "On cores that have no floating-point > > registers...". > > The issue is that people might not immediately see all PPC's as RS6000 > variants, right? Fair enough. "RS6000 variants" is historically > correct, but it's not like anyone has fabricated an RS6000 in recent > history. I've changed that to "On PPC and RS6000 variants that ...". Okay, that's fine. Your revised patch is okay to commit. Thanks! Kevin