From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32507 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2007 15:20:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 32498 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Dec 2007 15:20:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dmz.mips-uk.com (HELO dmz.mips-uk.com) (194.74.144.194) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:19:58 +0000 Received: from internal-mx1 ([192.168.192.240] helo=ukservices1.mips.com) by dmz.mips-uk.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IzZYw-0005N4-00; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:19:54 +0000 Received: from perivale.mips.com ([192.168.192.200]) by ukservices1.mips.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IzZYq-0006bX-00; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:19:48 +0000 Received: from macro (helo=localhost) by perivale.mips.com with local-esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IzZYq-0004e5-Lo; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:19:48 +0000 Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:20:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Daniel Jacobowitz cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: Re: MIPS/Linux: Register number overlap in target descriptions In-Reply-To: <20071204151051.GA3966@caradoc.them.org> Message-ID: References: <20071204151051.GA3966@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MIPS-Technologies-UK-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MIPS-Technologies-UK-MailScanner-From: macro@mips.com Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > No, those numberings are different. They are used for internal > register layout, but only sent to the target if there is no XML > description. So a mismatch is fine except when you're trying to > retain compatibility with legacy stubs. Ah, I see. > Of course, I was trying. Not sure how I missed this - did it have > any symptoms? I just spotted it while putting support for DSP registers I am about to submit in line with HEAD. > Patch is OK. After this, I hope the register numbers line up with > mips-elf again; I think they do. It looks like. Maciej