Re: [RFC] x86-64 targeted gdb and corefiles

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-28T08:11:10Z

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:01:11PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:40:29PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > 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)();
> > };
> >
> > See gdbserver's regset handling for a more concrete example of this.
> > This could be used to kill all the duplicate copies of core-regset.c
> > that have made their way into i386 and powerpc tdep files.
>
> Yah, probably not a bad idea. My only concern would be how do you
> register and look up these regset handlers. They need to be tied
> to the OS ABI somehow.

You just said the "how" yourself :)

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