Re: [rfc] [00/16] Get rid of current gdbarch

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:03:21 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:59:39PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > I agree that everything would be much easier if the register numbers
> > were constants.  But note that rs6000 is not the only platform where
> > this is not the case, I see the same (or even worse) also in mips,
> > m32c, xtensa, ...  (The mep usage also seems suspicious.)
> 
> Yes.  For some platforms (xtensa, mep) there may not be much we can
> do... and MIPS presents its own unique problems because of the use
> of pseudo registers for everything.  Hmm, this makes me wonder how
> deep the broken goes.  Maybe we shouldn't translate from DWARF numbers
> to internal ones until later.

The solution here is (and always has been) making GDB's register
number encoding a truly internal encoding.  Then we could easily unify
the different rs6000/powerpc variants.  I understand that people want
to keep the ability to talk to old stubs, so the remote target support
code in GDB should take care of doing the conversion.

Mark