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Re: [RFA] gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c: Wrong return value in ppc_cannot_store_register()

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Markus Deuling <deuling at de dot ibm dot com>
Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:35:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [RFA] gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c: Wrong return value in ppc_cannot_store_register()
References: <45AF6A01.1020605@de.ibm.com> <20070118162855.GA14330@nevyn.them.org> <45B0AB10.1060205@de.ibm.com>

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:27:12PM +0100, Markus Deuling wrote:
> So no one works with that returning 2. If the check has to be avoided in 
> ppc, then the three lines below can re removed, can't they? Then it's like 

No.  Please think about the comment you're deleting.  This exists so
that gdbserver will not print error messages on kernels which do not
allow us to modify fpscr; there are no ppc64 kernels with this problem,
but ppc32 kernels with the bug were prevalent.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

References:
- [RFA] gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c: Wrong return value in ppc_cannot_store_register()
  - From: Markus Deuling
- Re: [RFA] gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c: Wrong return value in ppc_cannot_store_register()
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: [RFA] gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c: Wrong return value in ppc_cannot_store_register()
  - From: Markus Deuling

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