From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1674 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2010 18:47:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 1661 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Mar 2010 18:47:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (74.125.121.35) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:47:38 +0000 Received: from hpaq6.eem.corp.google.com (hpaq6.eem.corp.google.com [10.3.21.6]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o2MIlaL7020243 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:47:36 +0100 Received: from wwi18 (wwi18.prod.google.com [10.241.243.18]) by hpaq6.eem.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o2MIlXb5008824 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:47:34 +0100 Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so1618246wwi.18 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:47:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.90.196 with SMTP id e46mr2633803wef.138.1269283653435; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:47:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BA7B64D.7090403@vmware.com> References: <4BA7B64D.7090403@vmware.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:47:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [RFA 3/5] Prec: x86 segment register support: target] From: Doug Evans To: Michael Snyder Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2010-03/txt/msg00770.txt.bz2 On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Michael Snyder wrote: > I'd just like to point out that while all this sounds great, > it shouldn't be a prerequisite to the original task of just > getting prec to record the segments and offsets correctly. > > Maybe we should split these two tasks, so that Teawater can > go ahead and accomplish his. To the extent that they can be split, IWBN alright. I wonder if the interface is sufficient though (setting aside where to put it and how it will look). Any particular o/s might not provide sufficient hooks of course. linux's modify_ldt, AIUI, let's one change more than just foo_base. NativeClient http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ uses it, for example.