[PATCH] MIPS: Fix pc_regnum and sp_regnum initialisation
Joel Brobecker
brobecker@adacore.com
Thu Dec 8 08:31:00 GMT 2011
> Register numbers used for pc_regnum and sp_regnum are in the cooked range
> and therefore depend on the total number of registers. At some point the
> MIPS/Linux OS ABI initialiser has been changed such that it may change the
> number of available registers to add the artificial "restart" register.
> Therefore cooked register numbers stored in gdbarch may only be
> initialised once the OS ABI initialiser has run.
Ugh...
> 2011-12-06 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>
>
> gdb/
> * mips-tdep.c (mips_gdbarch_init): Only set pc_regnum and
> sp_regnum once the gdbarch_init_osabi hook has been called.
Thanks. This looks OK to me.
> + /* The hook may have adjusted num_regs, fetch the final value and
> + set pc_regnum and sp_regnum now that it has been fixed. */
> + /* FIXME: cagney/2003-11-15: For MIPS, hasn't gdbarch_pc_regnum been
> + replaced by gdbarch_read_pc? */
It'd be interesting to answer Andrew's question, but that's for another
rainy day (that would mean tomorrow if you lived in Vancouver :-).
--
Joel
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