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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Support for x86 segments as address classes
- From: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:34:16 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Support for x86 segments as address classes
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Hi Richard,
Richard Henderson wrote:
> The following gets 90% of the way there, but I'm stuck --
> address_to_pointer and pointer_to_address do not appear to
> have access to a regcache. And not just in the one level
> of the caller, but significantly farther back in the call
> stack too.
>
> Which begs the question of whether I've simply missed
> something in how to get hold of the current regcache?
I don't know the answer to your questions, but thanks for
doing this; I can write better libpthread Infinity notes
for glibc with this. (I tried adding this support myself
a month or so back but got stuck way earlier than you!)
Cheers,
Gary
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