i386.record.floating.point.patch : with more testing and assurity

Michael Snyder msnyder@vmware.com
Fri Jul 3 21:52:00 GMT 2009


paawan oza wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In My understanding the point was like below.
> in the patch there were following register extended in enumeration in 
> i386-tdep.h
> 
> I386_FSTAT,
> I386_FTAG,       
> I386_FISEG,
> I386_FIOFF,
> I386_FOSEG,
> I386_FOOFF,
> I386_FOP
> 
> 
> According to Hui in some of his previous mails...his idea was
>> FCTRL, FOP and so on are the fp reg of amd64.  For now, prec is still
>> not support amd64 And amd64's support are in amd64-tedp.... files.  >Change i386_regnum is not a good idea. I suggest you divide fp patch to 2 >parts. One is for i386, the other for amd64. For now, just send i386 patch >for review.  And send amd64 patch when prec support amd64"
> 
> 
> while, my idea/understanding is:
> FCTRL, FOP registers are not only a part of amd64, but also part of i386 (x87 FPU unit) also.
> so according to me these registers are part of i386 also and it needed to be also in i386-tdep.h.
> 
> Regards,
> Oza.

I'm not sure why you want to add those constants to i386-tdep.h,
when the rest of your patch does not seem to use them.



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