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Re: [PATCH] Improve the fetch/store of general-purpose and floating-point PowerPC registers


Ping again.

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:32 -0300, Sérgio Durigan Júnior wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> The following patch improves the way GDB does fetch/store operations on
> general-purpose and floating-point registers on the PowerPC
> architecture. Basically, it uses the ptrace() options
> PTRACE_{GET,SET}REGS, PTRACE_{GET,SET}FPREGS and PTRACE_{GET,SET}REGS64.
> 
> I've tested it running a regression test on various machines/kernel
> combinations, and it does not cause any regression.
> 
> Comments, as always, are welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> 
-- 
Sérgio Durigan Júnior
Linux on Power Toolchain - Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - LTC
IBM Brazil


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