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Re: [PATCH] Improve the fetch/store of general-purpose and floating-point PowerPC registers
- From: Sérgio Durigan Júnior <sergiodj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:32:22 -0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve the fetch/store of general-purpose and floating-point PowerPC registers
- References: <1223404355.7030.20.camel@miki>
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,
>
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Sérgio Durigan Júnior
Linux on Power Toolchain - Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - LTC
IBM Brazil