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Re: Modernize NetBSD/powerpc support in GDB

From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw at wasabisystems dot com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: 12 May 2006 17:36:34 -0400
Subject: Re: Modernize NetBSD/powerpc support in GDB
References: <200605021944.k42JiW6a005600@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <mtuslnghurv.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu> <200605122048.k4CKmqjQ020427@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:

> My bet is still that it is a cache flushing issue, especially since
> the 440, which uses different code to flush the cache, is so much
> better.

I should also note that with a moderately bogus hack in the macppc
code that fixes the iflush problem, I got macppc down to 279 failures,
very repeatably. All of the failures that macppc had that the 440
didn't have were AltiVec-related.

        - Nathan

References:
- Modernize NetBSD/powerpc support in GDB
  - From: Mark Kettenis
- Re: Modernize NetBSD/powerpc support in GDB
  - From: Nathan J. Williams
- Re: Modernize NetBSD/powerpc support in GDB
  - From: Mark Kettenis

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