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RE: [PATCH 02/24] Add MIPS32 FPU64 GDB target descriptions

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  If we had such a dedicated virtual $fre, and we decided sometime to let 
> the user actually write to it and switch the mode process-wide, then we 
> could simply invoke the right prctl(2) call in response to the user's 
> ptrace(2) request.

 Or we could call it $fp_mode and map it directly to prctl(PR_GET_FP_MODE) 
and prctl(PR_SET_FP_MODE, ...).

  Maciej
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