Re: [PATCH, testsuite] Don't run SREC, IHEX and TEKHEX tests for MIPS N64.

[Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>]

On 07/04/2013 10:22 AM, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Luis Machado wrote:
>> On 07/03/2013 12:05 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>> On 07/02/2013 07:50 PM, Luis Machado wrote:
>>>> -
>>>> -if {[istarget "spu*-*-*"]} then {
>>>> -    # The internal address format used for the combined Cell/B.E.
>>>> -    # debugger requires 64-bit.
>>>> -    set is64bitonly "yes"
>>>> -}
>>>> -
>>>
>>> I'm not sure this equates to sizeof pointer == 64-bit.
>>> This bit may need to be retained.  [Adding Ulrich].
>>
>> Fair enough. Ulrich, let me know if the pointer check in the attached
>> patch doesn't make sense for Cell BE.
>
> No, the pointer check is not enough.   The problem is that on Cell/B.E.,
> GDB uses a (purely internal to GDB) address format to encode multiple
> address spaces into a synthetic GDB address space.  See the long
> comment in spu-tdep.h for details.
>
> The "restore" command needs a full internal 64-bit address on Cell/B.E.
> to uniquely identify the location where to restore memory.  Thus using
> a data format that can only remember 32-bit addresses don't work:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-09/msg00139.html
>
> However, just testing the size of a pointer will return 32-bit on SPU,
> because that's the ABI-defined pointer size (the 64 bits are purely
> GDB internal).  So I think Cell/B.E. / SPU will need to remain a
> special case here for now.
>
> Bye,
> Ulrich
>

I see. I'll put the spu exception back into the testcase then.

Thanks,
Luis