From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22575 invoked by alias); 17 May 2002 20:07:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22552 invoked from network); 17 May 2002 20:07:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 May 2002 20:07:04 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4633E98; Fri, 17 May 2002 16:07:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CE562F1.10801@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:07:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Elena Zannoni Cc: "Martin M. Hunt" , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] SSE register type fix References: <200205171228.09802.hunt@redhat.com> <15589.24050.270161.515964@localhost.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00755.txt.bz2 > I know zilch about SSE registers, but the gdbtypes.c and gdbtypes.h > changes make sense and are approved.... > > However... can we now remove the old machinery for creating the old > style types? The v4si, v2si, etc types? I think the sse regs were the > only ones using it. > > However #2... what's the 'i' in vec128i for? Intel? I would think that 'i' > would be more like 'integer', i.e. vectors w/o floating point variants. > Maybe we need a new naming scheme. Groan. > > Hey, how about some kind soul adding tests for these registers in the > new gdb.arch directory? I think it would be possible to clone the > altivec-regs files. As an aside, what should happen to the push_arguments used by i386(I think it uses the generic one). That should probably be made vector aware? Andrew