[PATCH] AARCH64: Change cpsr type to be 64bit.

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Fri Dec 20 17:48:00 GMT 2013


On 12/18/2013 07:08 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> As mentioned in http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg290896.html, we should change gdb's notion of cpsr to be 64bit.
> 
> OK?  Build and tested for aarch64-linux-gnu with no regressions.
> I also double checked to make sure that what is passed down from the kernel (via sigcontext), is the full 64bit.

With this, the register will be exposed as 64-bit to the
user.  Is that desirable?  The fact that the original
description used 32-bit makes it sounds like it's not.
What's the real register width at the (asm visible)
machine level?

-- 
Pedro Alves



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