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From: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Support for x86 segments as address classes
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151127143416.GA17511@blade.nx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446558190-13482-1-git-send-email-rth@redhat.com>

Hi Richard,

Richard Henderson wrote:
> The following gets 90% of the way there, but I'm stuck --
> address_to_pointer and pointer_to_address do not appear to
> have access to a regcache.  And not just in the one level
> of the caller, but significantly farther back in the call
> stack too.
> 
> Which begs the question of whether I've simply missed
> something in how to get hold of the current regcache?

I don't know the answer to your questions, but thanks for
doing this; I can write better libpthread Infinity notes
for glibc with this.  (I tried adding this support myself
a month or so back but got stuck way earlier than you!)

Cheers,
Gary

-- 
http://gbenson.net/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-27 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-03 13:43 Richard Henderson
2015-11-03 13:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] Use register cache for x86_64 ps_get_thread_area Richard Henderson
2015-11-03 13:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add amd64 registers fs_base and gs_base Richard Henderson
2015-11-03 13:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] Segment support for x86_64, part 1 Richard Henderson
2015-11-05 11:21 ` [PATCH 0/3] Support for x86 segments as address classes Pedro Alves
2015-11-05 14:15   ` Richard Henderson
2015-11-18 18:18     ` Ulrich Weigand
2015-11-05 14:18 ` [PATCH 4/3] Segment support for x86_64, part 2 Richard Henderson
2015-11-27 14:34 ` Gary Benson [this message]
2016-04-19 14:23 ` [PATCH 0/3] Support for x86 segments as address classes Tedeschi, Walfred
2016-04-19 14:44   ` Richard Henderson
2016-04-19 14:47     ` Walfred Tedeschi

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