Re: current CVS gdb and SSE xmm registers don't work [RESEND]

Re: current CVS gdb and SSE xmm registers don't work [RESEND]

[Mark Kettenis]

   Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:19:01 -0400
   From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>

   > Fixing this requires a serious amount of work.  It requires changes to
   > both GDB and glibc.  It definitely isn't going to happen overnight,
   > especially since I only have a Pentium MMX machine.

   Mark, it would proably be useful to mention this in gdb/README under the 
   host/target section.

Which section do you mean?  We only have a section `Host/target
specific installation notes'.  Doesn't seem an appropriate section to
me.  Should I add a section `Known problems' for this purpose (just
before or after `Reporting Bugs')?

Mark

Re: current CVS gdb and SSE xmm registers don't work [RESEND]

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Mark Kettenis wrote:

>    Mark, it would proably be useful to mention this in gdb/README under the 
>    host/target section.
> 
> Which section do you mean?  We only have a section `Host/target
> specific installation notes'.

How about in NEWS?  We should tell there that SSE is supported (it wasn't 
in v5.0, right?), and while at that, mention the limitations.

Re: current CVS gdb and SSE xmm registers don't work [RESEND]

[Andrew Cagney]

>  Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:19:01 -0400
>    From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> 
>> Fixing this requires a serious amount of work.  It requires changes to
>    > both GDB and glibc.  It definitely isn't going to happen overnight,
>    > especially since I only have a Pentium MMX machine.
> 
>    Mark, it would proably be useful to mention this in gdb/README under the 
>    host/target section.
> 
> Which section do you mean?  We only have a section `Host/target
> specific installation notes'.  Doesn't seem an appropriate section to
> me.  Should I add a section `Known problems' for this purpose (just
> before or after `Reporting Bugs')?


If I changed the title to ``Host/target specific notes'' would it help?

I would like it to be possible for a user to just read (dare I say skim? 
:-) the README file and then successfully build GDB.  Having all the 
host/target specific issues in one spot would hopefully help this.

	Andrew

Re: current CVS gdb and SSE xmm registers don't work [RESEND]

[Andrew Cagney]

>> Mark, it would proably be useful to mention this in gdb/README under the 
>> host/target section.
>> 
>> Which section do you mean?  We only have a section `Host/target
>> specific installation notes'.
> 
> 
> How about in NEWS?  We should tell there that SSE is supported (it wasn't 
> in v5.0, right?), and while at that, mention the limitations.


If it wasn't in 5.0 then definitily a mention in news.

	Andrew

[PATCH] Re: current CVS gdb and SSE xmm registers don't work

[Mark Kettenis]

   Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:48:58 +0300 (IDT)
   From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>

   How about in NEWS?  We should tell there that SSE is supported (it wasn't 
   in v5.0, right?), and while at that, mention the limitations.

SSE was already mentioned.  Anyway, I checked in the attached patch.

Index: ChangeLog
from  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>

	* NEWS: Update.

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -p -r1.31 NEWS
--- NEWS 2001/07/29 08:03:36 1.31
+++ NEWS 2001/08/02 18:35:06
@@ -120,9 +120,14 @@ documentation of `hookpost' in the GDB m
 
 * Changes in GNU/Linux native debugging.
 
+Support for debugging multi-threaded programs has been completely
+revised for all platforms except m68k and sparc.  You can now debug as
+many threads as your system allows you to have.
+
 Attach/detach is supported for multi-threaded programs.
 
-Support for SSE registers was added.
+Support for SSE registers was added for x86.  This doesn't work for
+multi-threaded programs though.
 
 * Changes in MIPS configurations.
 

Re: current CVS gdb and SSE xmm registers don't work [RESEND]

[Mark Kettenis]

   Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:11:12 -0400
   From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>

   If I changed the title to ``Host/target specific notes'' would it
   help?

Yep, but ...

   I would like it to be possible for a user to just read (dare I say skim? 
   :-) the README file and then successfully build GDB.  Having all the 
   host/target specific issues in one spot would hopefully help this.

There is a considerable difference between Host/target specific
installation notes, Host/target specific runtime-problems.  The
installation notes are only relevant to the person that installs GDB,
while the "Known problems" are relevant to all users of GDB.  Perhaps
we can add a section to the GDB manual?

Mark

Re: current CVS gdb and SSE xmm registers don't work [RESEND]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:05:40 +0200
> From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>
> 
> There is a considerable difference between Host/target specific
> installation notes, Host/target specific runtime-problems.  The
> installation notes are only relevant to the person that installs GDB,
> while the "Known problems" are relevant to all users of GDB.  Perhaps
> we can add a section to the GDB manual?

As Stan pointed out recently, we already have in the manual a chapter
named "Configuration-Specific Information".  All system-specific
information as well as target-specific commands should be documented
there, in appropriately-named sections.