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Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Use partial register read/writes in transfer_regset
- From: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>
- To: Alan Hayward <alan dot hayward at arm dot com>, <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: <nd at arm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:02:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Use partial register read/writes in transfer_regset
- References: <20180621093802.79342-1-alan.hayward@arm.com> <20180621093802.79342-4-alan.hayward@arm.com>
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On 2018-06-21 05:38 AM, Alan Hayward wrote:
> This avoids assert failures when the register is bigger than the
> slot size. This happens on Aarch64 when truncating Z registers
> into an fpsimd structure.
Oh, and can you mention in the commit log that this happens when using
generate-core-file? It could help if somebody wants to test it in the future.
Thanks,
Simon