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Re: Printing decimal128 types out of registers


On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:20 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Here's one (of many) possible ways you could do it.  Define an
> appropriate property in an XML file for Power6, and add that to the
> list of built-in descriptions just like the existing ones.  In
> ppc-linux-nat.c and in gdbserver, check the auxv vector for the
> dfp capability.  If it's present, return the Power6 description.
> Other non-Linux targets can handle this in the appropriate way
> for each target.
> 
> For the gdbserver part you'd probably want to wait until Ulrich's
> biarch patches go in; that may simplify it.

I'll try this. Thanks for the suggestion.

> If this is too complicated, I wouldn't argue against a patch that just
> added them if the floating point regsiters are present.  Seems like it
> won't be useful on a lot of processors though.

Agreed.
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center


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