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Re: [RFC 6/7] Lazily and dynamically create i386-linux target descriptions

On Thursday, May 11, 2017 04:55:04 PM Yao Qi wrote:
> Instead of using pre-generated target descriptions, this patch
> changes GDB to lazily and dynamically create target descriptions
> according to the target hardware capability (xcr0 in i386).
> This support any combination of target features.
> 
> This patch also adds a unit test to make sure dynamically generated
> tdesc are identical to these generated from xml files.

I definitely like this approach of composing the tdesc.  For the
non-Linux case there are already amd64_target_description() and
i386_target_description() functions in the respective -tdep.c files
that could use the same treatment.  Not sure if you wanted to fix all
of x86 in the same patch series or do it as a separate followup?

-- 
John Baldwin
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