From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 6/7] Lazily and dynamically create i386-linux target descriptions
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 21:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170511210336.uzogscsc2ynbogfc@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5290733.2saQ3BOrGQ@ralph.baldwin.cx>
On 17-05-11 10:04:39, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday, May 11, 2017 04:55:04 PM Yao Qi wrote:
> > Instead of using pre-generated target descriptions, this patch
> > changes GDB to lazily and dynamically create target descriptions
> > according to the target hardware capability (xcr0 in i386).
> > This support any combination of target features.
> >
> > This patch also adds a unit test to make sure dynamically generated
> > tdesc are identical to these generated from xml files.
>
> I definitely like this approach of composing the tdesc. For the
> non-Linux case there are already amd64_target_description() and
> i386_target_description() functions in the respective -tdep.c files
> that could use the same treatment. Not sure if you wanted to fix all
> of x86 in the same patch series or do it as a separate followup?
>
The later, but I can fix all x86 in one patch if people think it is more
reasonable to do so. I plan to change one arch each time, and gradually
change all archs to use the new style of target description.
--
Yao
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-11 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-11 15:55 [RFC 0/7] Make GDB builtin target descriptions more flexible Yao Qi
2017-05-11 15:55 ` [RFC 7/7] Remove builtin tdesc_i386_*_linux Yao Qi
2017-05-16 12:02 ` Philipp Rudo
2017-05-17 15:46 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-11 15:55 ` [RFC 6/7] Lazily and dynamically create i386-linux target descriptions Yao Qi
2017-05-11 18:14 ` John Baldwin
2017-05-11 21:03 ` Yao Qi [this message]
2017-05-17 15:43 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-18 15:12 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-19 10:15 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-19 14:27 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-11 15:55 ` [RFC 1/7] Move initialize_tdesc_mips* calls from mips-linux-nat.c to mips-linux-tdep.c Yao Qi
2017-05-11 15:55 ` [RFC 3/7] Adjust the order of 32bit-linux.xml and 32bit-sse.xml in i386/i386-linux.xml Yao Qi
2017-05-11 15:55 ` [RFC 5/7] Centralize i386 linux target descriptions Yao Qi
2017-05-11 15:55 ` [RFC 2/7] Add unit test to builtin tdesc generated by xml Yao Qi
2017-05-16 12:00 ` Philipp Rudo
2017-05-16 15:46 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-17 9:09 ` Philipp Rudo
2017-05-17 16:06 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-30 8:00 ` Philipp Rudo
2017-06-01 17:53 ` Philipp Rudo
2017-05-17 15:41 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-18 9:54 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-18 11:34 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-19 15:47 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-22 8:51 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-11 16:06 ` [RFC 0/7] Make GDB builtin target descriptions more flexible Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-11 20:56 ` Yao Qi
2017-05-11 20:55 ` [RFC 4/7] Share code in initialize_tdesc_ functions Yao Qi
2017-05-16 12:02 ` Philipp Rudo
2017-05-17 15:43 ` Pedro Alves
2017-05-18 11:21 ` Yao Qi
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