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Re: [RFA/RFT PATCH 0/3] Add TDB regset support
- From: Andreas Arnez <arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:59:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFA/RFT PATCH 0/3] Add TDB regset support
- References: <87fvwu5937 dot fsf at br87z6lw dot de dot ibm dot com> <51B1F629 dot 5070006 at redhat dot com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
> Why isn't this exposed as a new target description that includes the
> new register set?
It would require extracting the hardware capabilities from the core
file's auxiliary vector in order to distinguish between platforms with
and without the transactional-execution facility. I guess it could be
done, but I didn't consider it that important. Do you see any problems
with the current approach?