Re: [PATCH] Some regset-related cleanup for i386bsd-nat.c

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

> Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl> writes:
> 
> 
>>> 	* i386bsd-nat.c: Don't include "gregset.h".
>>> 	(supply_gregset, fill_gregset): Make static.
>>> 	(supply_fpregset, fill_fpregset): Remove.
> 
> 
> I just noticed this in one of my builds. I'm attempting to modernize
> and prepare my NetBSD thread support code for integration, and that
> code uses the {supply,fill}_{regset,fpregset} functions to implement
> the thread-specific fetch_registers and store_registers, based on
> register context passed back from the pthread debugging library (It
> was quite a boon when I ported it forward from 5.0 to 5.3 and got
> these functions to use). If these are removed, is there a good way for
> an architecture-neutral bit of code like nbsd-thread.c to go back and
> forth between GDB's register storage and native register storage?

Have a look at regsets.[hc], the method:
   set_gdbarch_regset_from_core_section (gdbarch, 
ppc_linux_regset_from_core_section);
they set the general direction for where GDB is going.

Andrew