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* [RFA] Fix i386-sse.exp regression on Darwin
@ 2009-02-05 16:03 Tristan Gingold
  2009-02-05 17:32 ` Mark Kettenis
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tristan Gingold @ 2009-02-05 16:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb-patches

Hi,

xmm0 is a scratch register for the Darwin/i386 ABI and therefore may  
be destroyed by calling a function.
This patch fix a regression on Darwin by replacing a function call by  
a asm nop.  The only purpose of the
function call was to be able to put a breakpoint.

Tristan.

testsuite:
2009-02-05  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>

	* gdb.arch/i386-sse.c (main): Replace call to puts by an nop asm.

diff -u -r1.5 i386-sse.c
--- testsuite/gdb.arch/i386-sse.c	3 Jan 2009 05:58:03 -0000	1.5
+++ testsuite/gdb.arch/i386-sse.c	5 Feb 2009 16:02:36 -0000
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
             : "r" (data)
             : "xmm0", "xmm1", "xmm2", "xmm3", "xmm4", "xmm5", "xmm6",  
"xmm7");

-      puts ("Hi!"); /* first breakpoint here */
+      asm ("nop"); /* first breakpoint here */

        asm (
             "movaps %%xmm0, 0(%0)\n\t"


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* Re: [RFA] Fix i386-sse.exp regression on Darwin
  2009-02-05 16:03 [RFA] Fix i386-sse.exp regression on Darwin Tristan Gingold
@ 2009-02-05 17:32 ` Mark Kettenis
  2009-02-06  8:49   ` Tristan Gingold
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mark Kettenis @ 2009-02-05 17:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gingold; +Cc: gdb-patches

> From: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:02:49 +0100
> 
> Hi,
> 
> xmm0 is a scratch register for the Darwin/i386 ABI and therefore may  
> be destroyed by calling a function.
> This patch fix a regression on Darwin by replacing a function call by  
> a asm nop.  The only purpose of the
> function call was to be able to put a breakpoint.

ok with me

> testsuite:
> 2009-02-05  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>
> 
> 	* gdb.arch/i386-sse.c (main): Replace call to puts by an nop asm.


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* Re: [RFA] Fix i386-sse.exp regression on Darwin
  2009-02-05 17:32 ` Mark Kettenis
@ 2009-02-06  8:49   ` Tristan Gingold
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tristan Gingold @ 2009-02-06  8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark Kettenis; +Cc: gdb-patches


On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote:

>> From: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
>> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:02:49 +0100
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> xmm0 is a scratch register for the Darwin/i386 ABI and therefore may
>> be destroyed by calling a function.
>> This patch fix a regression on Darwin by replacing a function call by
>> a asm nop.  The only purpose of the
>> function call was to be able to put a breakpoint.
>
> ok with me

Thanks, committed.

Tristan.


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