Re: PATCH: Extend gdb remote protocol for AVX

H.J. Lu
2008-10-05T14:37:52Z

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> I have no objection to the changes you proposed for the remote
>> protocol. But your diff also touches the core register stuff, and
>> that needs a bit more thought to make sure we don't surprise our
>> users. At that point, it may be easier to use the same model for the
>> remote protocol, where you transfer the top 128 bits of the %ymm
>> registers in addition to the %xmm registers. Adter all this is how
>> the hardware does it too (xsave is just an extension of fxsave).
>
> One way would be to transfer the xmm registers and then the remaining
> bits as unnamed registers; another, probably easier way would be to
> use an architecture specification or an actual register description to
> transfer just the ymm registers and let GDB know about that fact, so
> it can synthesize the xmm registers.
>
> (I don't remember the original patch, that may be what you're talking
> about already.)
>

My proposal transfers the whole 256bit registers. We can display
xmm registers as the lower 128bit ymm registers if we can
display al/ax/eax.

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H.J.