Re: [RFC] Register sets

Andrew Cagney
2003-09-04T22:16:12Z

> > I should note that I do know of a second way of handling cross
> > architectures (x86-64 on i386 et.al.). Add a table of cross
> > architecture unwinders and then allow different frames to have different
> > architectures vis:
> >
> > x86-64 frame
> > <x86-64 X i386>
> > i386 frame
> > i386 frame
> > <ia64 X i386>
> > ia64 frame
> >
> > but that's getting way ahead of many other changes.
>
> A cross unwinder here would be a method that converts say an amd64
> register cache into an i386 register cache (among other things)?

Yes, but it would do the conversion at the frame level.

Andrew