RFA: AIX 64-bit mega-patch
Nick Duffek
nsd@redhat.com
Tue Jun 13 19:06:00 GMT 2000
On 13-Jun-2000, David Edelsohn wrote:
>If I understand the code, it looks like you are using generic
>dummy frames for PowerPC and not for "rs6000" which I think means POWER
>architecture.
Right.
>I don't understand the reason for that difference.
That's how it was before I made my changes, and I kept the status quo.
Maybe generic dummy frames can be used for POWER as well; I'll look into
it.
>Assuming the meaning of "rs6000", the hard-coded TOC offset may not be a
>problem (because POWER is only 32-bit)
Agreed.
>"PowerPC / RS6000 processor variant is ..." and "GDB knows about
>the following PowerPC and RS6000 variants ..."
Those messages are removed by the patch.
>RMS refused to allow early GCC and GDB to refer to the
>architecture as "POWER" because he did not want GNU software providing
>subliminal publicity for IBM given the spelling of the architecture name.
Ah, that's an interesting bit of history; it explains the dual use of the
term. Maybe it'd be worth changing the nomenclature internal to
rs6000-tdep.c.
Nick
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