From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix debugging code compiled for newer PPC BookE processors
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101102185341.GG2492@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101102184612.GD26083@nightcrawler>
> I don't know exactly what the purpose is. The E500 ABI User's Guide
> says simply:
>
> For the .PPC.EMB.apuinfo section, the name shall be ???APUinfo\0???, the
> type shall be 2 (as type 1 is already reserved for ELF_NOTE_ABI), and
> the data shall contain a series of words containing APU information,
> one per word. The APU information contains two unsigned halfwords: the
> upper half contains the unique APU identi???er, and the lower half
> contains the revision of that APU.
Interesting. Perhaps the purpose is for cases where all those separate
sections can no longer be separate, but merged somehow somewhere.
In that case, the type becomes important whereas, right now, it's only
redundant with the section name...
In any case, the patch looked fine to me.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-02 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-29 19:27 Nathan Froyd
2010-11-02 18:23 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-02 18:46 ` Nathan Froyd
2010-11-02 18:53 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-11-25 0:29 ` [commit] Build failure on ppc-aix (bfd_elf_get_obj_attr_int is undefined) Joel Brobecker
2010-11-29 22:06 ` Nathan Froyd
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