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Re: More i386 architectures?
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> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 08:32:53PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>> As part of this, GDB uses BFD's archures to identify ISA variants.
>> Unfortunatly, looking at the i386, things are pretty thin on the ground
>> - only i8086 and i386 are present.
>>
>> Does anyone object to me padding this out with (at a guess):
>>
>> ..._i386sx
>> ..._i386_p1
>> ..._i386_p1_mmx
>> ..._i386_p2
>> ..._i386_p3
>> ..._i386_p4
>
>
> That's going to be intractable. You'd be much better off using
> the CPUID flags that identify the set of ISA extensions that the
> cpu supports.
Sorry you've lost me here. I'm refering to a data structure provided by
BFD and used by GDB to identify architectures and architecture variants.
GDB might, where pratical, use this CPUID flag to select the
architecture but that is a separate problem.
Andrew