Hello all I broke the original bank into more logical banks: general-purpose registers, FP registers and Altivec registers. This is how they are stored in the core file, btw (CORE/PRSTATUS, CORE/FPREGSET, LINUX/PPC_VMX, respectively). This way, PPC code is analog to IA32 code, as Phil required. What do you think? -- Carlos Eduardo Seo Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center