From: Pedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: uweigand@de.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] [PowerPC] Document requirements for VSX feature
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181108131041.14909-1-pedromfc@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
As suggested in
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-10/msg00510.html, this
patch changes the documentation for the VSX tdesc feature to make it
clear that the altivec and FPU features are requirements.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
YYYY-MM-DD Pedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com>
* gdb.texinfo: Document the altivec and fpu requirements for
the org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx feature.
---
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 9756155a39..944a2c4383 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -43230,11 +43230,13 @@ contain registers @samp{vr0} through @samp{vr31}, @samp{vscr},
and @samp{vrsave}.
The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx} feature is optional. It should
-contain registers @samp{vs0h} through @samp{vs31h}. @value{GDBN}
-will combine these registers with the floating point registers
-(@samp{f0} through @samp{f31}) and the altivec registers (@samp{vr0}
-through @samp{vr31}) to present the 128-bit wide registers @samp{vs0}
-through @samp{vs63}, the set of vector registers for POWER7.
+contain registers @samp{vs0h} through @samp{vs31h}. @value{GDBN} will
+combine these registers with the floating point registers (@samp{f0}
+through @samp{f31}) and the altivec registers (@samp{vr0} through
+@samp{vr31}) to present the 128-bit wide registers @samp{vs0} through
+@samp{vs63}, the set of vector-scalar registers for POWER7.
+Therefore, this feature requires both @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.fpu} and
+@samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.altivec}.
The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.spe} feature is optional. It should
contain registers @samp{ev0h} through @samp{ev31h}, @samp{acc}, and
--
2.13.6
next reply other threads:[~2018-11-08 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-08 13:11 Pedro Franco de Carvalho [this message]
2018-11-08 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-08 13:28 ` Pedro Franco de Carvalho
2018-11-09 18:12 ` Pedro Franco de Carvalho
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