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Re: [PATCH V4 0/8] Intel(R) MPX register support
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: "Tedeschi, Walfred" <walfred dot tedeschi at intel dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:33:30 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/8] Intel(R) MPX register support
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: "Tedeschi, Walfred" <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
> CC: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:51:23 +0000
>
> Common code I meant the target dependent files, i.e. amd64-tdep.c and i386-tdep.c.
>
> We added code to support Linux only. Linux registers are processed at amd64-tdep-linux.c and i386-tdep-linux.c as well as amd64-linux-nat.c and i386-linux-nat.c.
>
> In order to implement the same features for windows we should have modified the amd64-tdep-windows and i386-tdep-windows.c and for Darwin amd64-tdep-darwin and i386-tdep-darwin.c for bsd there would be also some change on amd64bsd-native.c and i386bsd-native.c. Additionally we OS support that is still not ready on the other platforms.
>
> I hope to have clarified.
I'm sorry to insist, but that's exactly my question: why were the
changes done in Linux-specific i386-tdep-linux.c etc., and not in the
CPU-specific i386-tdep.c etc.? These registers are specific to a CPU,
not to an OS, aren't they?