RFC: partially available registers

[Pedro Alves]

On Friday 22 July 2011 16:19:38, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> Pedro> # of expected passes            39
> Pedro> with an unpatched gdb (x86-64-linux), same as with patched gdb.
> Pedro> Is that expected?
> 
> It definitely fails for me with unpatched gdb.
> 
> Does your machine have AVX?  I believe it will only fail on an
> AVX-capable machine.

Ah, that's it then.  I was curious to know why were the
upper parts of the ymm unavailable.

Are you hitting:

regcache_raw_read ()
{
...
      /* A number of targets can't access the whole set of raw
	 registers (because the debug API provides no means to get at
	 them).  */
      if (regcache->register_status[regnum] == REG_UNKNOWN)
	regcache->register_status[regnum] = REG_UNAVAILABLE;
    }

?

-- 
Pedro Alves