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From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA/RFT PATCH 0/3] Add TDB regset support
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Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

> Why isn't this exposed as a new target description that includes the
> new register set?

It would require extracting the hardware capabilities from the core
file's auxiliary vector in order to distinguish between platforms with
and without the transactional-execution facility.  I guess it could be
done, but I didn't consider it that important.  Do you see any problems
with the current approach?