From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3494 invoked by alias); 31 May 2002 14:40:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3458 invoked from network); 31 May 2002 14:39:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO granite.wescam.com) (209.226.65.58) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 May 2002 14:39:58 -0000 Received: by granite.wescam.com; id KAA12942; Fri, 31 May 2002 10:39:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(10.1.208.102) by granite.wescam.com via smap (V5.0) id xma012917; Fri, 31 May 02 10:39:45 -0400 Received: by mail.burlington.wescam.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 31 May 2002 10:38:08 -0400 Received: from SFHLT ([10.1.88.209]) by mail.burlington.wescam.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id KGW4PKJQ; Fri, 31 May 2002 10:38:06 -0400 From: Stephen Holford Reply-To: Stephen Holford To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <001b01c208b2$40a12a20$d158010a@burlington.wescam.com> Subject: PowerPC UISA registers and altivec Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 07:40:00 -0000 Organization: Wescam MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00338.txt.bz2 Hi In GDB release 5.2 the powerpc altivec registers have appeared as part of the register set used by the default architecture powerpc:common. These registers now appear in "info reg" commands, or in the register list from the insight GUI. Does it make sense to require the altivec registers to be part of powerpc:common? Most powerpc's don't have these registers (my viewpoint is from the embedded 8xx, 82xx world). Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen F. Holford, P.Eng. Wescam (905) 633-4000 x2119