From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6140 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2007 21:07:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 6132 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Apr 2007 21:07:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtagate6.de.ibm.com (HELO mtagate6.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:07:31 +0100 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate6.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3EL7SZi280008 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:07:28 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l3EL7SLX3657804 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:07:28 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l3EL7SLC007063 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:07:28 +0200 Received: from tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.85.9]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id l3EL7SZn007059 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:07:28 +0200 Message-Id: <200704142107.l3EL7SZn007059@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> Received: by tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:07:28 +0200 Subject: [rfc/rft] [0/5] Untangle register_addr et. al. To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:08:00 -0000 From: "Ulrich Weigand" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-04/txt/msg00222.txt.bz2 Hello, the following series of 5 patches attempts to untangle everything related to "traditional" ptrace-based register access. Overall, the patch set: - Removes every definition of the global register_addr function. - Removes most NM file definitions of KERNEL_U_SIZE, U_REGS_OFFSET, KERNEL_U_ADDR, and REGISTER_U_ADDR (except on OSF and AIX). - Removes all NM file definitions of CANNOT_STORE_REGISTER and CANNOT_FETCH_REGISTER. - Completely removes core-aout.c - Adds a linux_trad_target () function to simplify use of traditional register access in a Linux target. - Gets rid of nearly all platform nm-linux.h files (except i386). While not all portions of this are completely mechanical, the patch set should not actually change the behaviour of any target (except core file handling on alpha-linux, which should in fact improve ...). However, as I don't have access to the majority of the affected native targets, I'd appreciate any volunteers to test test patch set, in particular on mips-linux and alpha-linux. I'd also appreciate any comments on the patch set: is this the right think to do at this point; am I overlooking anything here? Thanks, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com