Re: ARM VFP support

Matt Fischer
2009-04-01T20:41:48Z

Ah, fantastic. Thanks for the information.

--Matt

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:25:46PM -0500, Matt Fischer wrote:
>> Has anyone yet attempted to add VFP support to GDB, now that the
>> kernel support for it exists? I'm considering trying to hack in at
>> least some basic register viewing support to assist in my debugging
>> here, but if somebody happens to already have a work-in-progress of
>> this I'd be interested in seeing it.
>
> CodeSourcery was working with ARM on this (way too long-standing)
> limitation; that led to the ptrace patch and to GDB support.
>
> The GDB work is in the latest Sourcery G++ releases, which does not
> necessarily do you any good... it will be in Lite in a couple of weeks
> too. We're not sitting on it intentionally; I just haven't had time
> to separate out the patch for submission yet. Hassle me about it if
> you don't hear about this again in the next couple weeks.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery
>