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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
	Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>,
	       "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: GDB <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Changes required for x86 address spaces
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5627DB32.2040208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5627CFB6.1050809@redhat.com>

On 10/21/2015 06:47 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:

> I was thinking the same thing.  Presumably all one needs to do is define new 
> architecture registers and fill in the blanks.  But I've lost track of how to 
> do that these days; it seems to be scattered across 19 different files...

Yeah, on x86-64, fs_base and fs_base are available in user_regs_struct
nowadays, thus accessible with PTRACE_PEEKUSER and PTRACE_GETREGSET.

Basically you need to:

 - add new gdb register numbers to amd64-tdep.h
 - add the ptrace/gdb register mapping to amd64-linux-tdep.c:amd64_linux_gregset_reg_offset
 - add new xml files to gdb/features/i386/
 - make gdb/x86-linux-nat.c:x86_linux_read_description return the new description.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-21 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-20 22:25 Richard Henderson
2015-10-21  2:38 ` H.J. Lu
2015-10-21  8:16   ` Gary Benson
2015-10-21 17:47     ` Richard Henderson
2015-10-21 18:36       ` Pedro Alves [this message]

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