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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] x86-64 targeted gdb and corefiles
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> As far as I'm concerned, it's simply not appropriate to be using generic
>> "regset" routines, because the names of those routines inherently make
>> them impossible to use for cross-debugging, especially in a truly multi-arch
>> environment (or even one as simple as "32-bit code running on x86-64").
> 
> 
> Seconded; perhaps with all the attention cross cores have been getting
> lately it's time for a better framework for this?  I was thinking
> something like:
> 
> struct regset_handler {
>   enum type regset_kind; /* general, FP, extended */
>   int size;
>   void (*supply)();
>   void (*fetch)();
> };

While something like this is definitly needed, I think it is getting 
slightly beyond the bounds of what MichaelL needs to do - get core files 
working, using current mechanisms, for x86-64.

enjoy,
Andrew