From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
Cc: GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: 1/6: Add AVX support
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dc9ffc81003041341r33f5a878uf0540ef69d8fc843@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100304213415.GJ16726@codesourcery.com>
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:27:09PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> > No, it will fail to display SSE. Core debugging should still be
>> > possible, and the newly added registers will be visible too. If
>> > that's not the case, fix GDB to function with the SSE registers
>> > missing.
>>
>> Your description only works for truly NEW registers, which
>> AVX registers aren't. AVX registers are actually the old SSE
>> registers with different names.
>
> You can make "wide" registers like this work; the PPC backend does this
> for the SPE registers, where the lower 32 bits function as the normal
> PPC registers and the upper 32 bits are sent as separate "registers".
> GDB then synthesizes the complete register out of both parts.
>
I am not familiar with SPE. How does it work with native SPE
gdb? Does it support old registers with new names?
--
H.J.
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Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 18:02 H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:05 ` PATCH: 2/6: Add AVX support (Update document) H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:06 ` PATCH: 3/6: Add AVX support (i386 changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:21 ` PATCH: 3/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 21:32 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-11 22:37 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-12 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 14:55 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-27 15:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-27 16:05 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-27 15:33 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 16:09 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-28 1:39 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 16:49 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-13 1:38 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 1:11 ` PATCH: 3/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-04-02 14:31 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-02 14:42 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-02 15:28 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 10:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-07 14:56 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 15:04 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 15:19 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-07 16:55 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 18:34 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-07 18:50 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 15:48 ` PATCH: 3/6 [2nd " Mark Kettenis
2010-03-28 1:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-28 11:55 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-28 14:25 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 20:32 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-29 21:41 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:08 ` PATCH: 4/6: Add AVX support (amd64 changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:09 ` PATCH: 5/6: Add AVX support (i387 changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:10 ` PATCH: 6/6: Add AVX support (gdbserver changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:23 ` PATCH: 6/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 17:25 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 16:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-28 1:11 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-28 7:55 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-28 14:56 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-28 16:17 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-28 16:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-28 16:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-28 16:47 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-28 20:53 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-28 21:27 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-28 16:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-28 19:31 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 1:09 ` PATCH: 6/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 14:42 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 15:42 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-30 16:48 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-02 17:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-04-07 4:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-03 21:57 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-04-07 4:12 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 16:59 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-05 3:20 ` PATCH: 5/6: Add AVX support (i387 changes) Hui Zhu
2010-03-05 3:54 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:22 ` PATCH: 5/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 17:24 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 16:57 ` PATCH: 5/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 15:08 ` PATCH: 5/6 [2nd " Mark Kettenis
2010-03-27 15:15 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:21 ` PATCH: 4/6 [2nd try]: Add AVX support (amd64 changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 21:33 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 17:01 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-13 1:38 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 1:07 ` PATCH: 4/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-04-02 14:32 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 16:54 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-05 10:33 ` PATCH: 2/6: Add AVX support (Update document) Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-05 14:08 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:19 ` PATCH: 2/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 14:17 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 16:46 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 0:18 ` PATCH: 2/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-03-30 16:41 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-30 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-30 18:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 19:09 ` PATCH: 1/6: Add AVX support Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-04 19:29 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 19:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-04 21:27 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 21:34 ` Nathan Froyd
2010-03-04 21:41 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2010-03-04 21:59 ` Nathan Froyd
2010-03-04 21:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-05 2:06 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-05 7:29 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-06 22:16 ` PATCH: 0/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:18 ` PATCH: 1/6 [2nd try]: Add AVX support (AVX XML files) H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 14:16 ` PATCH: 0/6 [2nd try]: Add AVX support Mark Kettenis
2010-03-07 14:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 16:31 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 16:40 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 17:04 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 17:39 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 20:00 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-07 19:10 ` Nathan Froyd
2010-03-07 19:49 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-07 21:07 ` Nathan Froyd
2010-03-07 21:17 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 20:29 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-07 21:04 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 16:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-29 0:16 ` PATCH: 0/6 [3nd " H.J. Lu
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