Re: ppc64 altivec registers?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-07T13:30:08Z

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:26:57AM -0500, Reynolds, Terry (Contractor-SIMTECH) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone here know how to fix the configuration of the kernel so that
> gdb can find the altivec registers? The last time I heard from Andrew
> Cagney he said :
>
> "At the time the code was written it was for a special altivec kernel /
> build / config. Hence it was only enabled when built powerpc-*-*altivec.
> Time has passed and that restriction no longer applies. I'll see about
> removing it."

Probably, the clean way to do this is through the "optional register
set" interface we defined a couple of months ago. But I haven't had
time to implement that yet.

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