Re: [PATCH 0/6] Use PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET in arm-linux-nat.c

[Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>]

On 28/05/15 15:20, Yao Qi wrote:
> This patch series is to let GDB arm-linux-nat.c use ptrace commands
> PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET if linux kernel supports.
>
> Patch #1 and #2 are factoring out macros and variables into more
> common files.  Patch #3 checks whether PTRACE_GETREGSET is supported by
> linux kernel.  Patch #4 - #6 use PTRACE_{G,S}ETREGSET ptrace commands
> to fetch and store general purpose registers, FP registers and VFP
> registers.
>
> The whole test series are tested on x86_64-linux and arm-linux (with
> PTRACE_GETREGSET and without PTRACE_GETREGSET kernel support respectively).
>
> After these patches, arm-linux-nat.c is similar to aarch64-linux-nat.c
> in the aspect of fetching and storing registers.  It paves the way for
> multi-arch support in aarch64 gdb (aarch64 gdb can do native debugging
> for arm program), which is the motivation of this patch series.

I removed " == 1" from the condition, as suggested by Doug, and pushed
these patches in.

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Yao (齐尧)