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From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Christina Joos <christina.joos@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gdb/record: avoid rax usage in i386-avx-record.exp
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:51:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91d78916-4871-4264-8d27-4d221ee424b5@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260813131022.24873-1-guinevere@redhat.com>

On 8/13/26 9:10 AM, Guinevere Larsen wrote:
> My recent commit, 1c04308f0958cbac83bad22703758139ea6969b6:
> 
>     Author: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
>     Date:   Tue Jun 16 16:03:43 2026 -0300
>     gdb/record: add support for BMI2 instructions
> 
> Introduced a few tests that rely on the rax register being set before
> entering the function. This isn't reliable, as programs compiled with
> gcc-14 and earlier will have the register. To avoid compiler versions

This sentence ends abruptly.

It's not clear to me what the problem is, could you explain it in simple
words :)?

Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-13 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-13 13:10 Guinevere Larsen
2026-08-13 14:51 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2026-08-13 15:07   ` Guinevere Larsen

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