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Re: More i386 architectures?

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:08:38PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I'm still lost.  If the user specified i386:p4 then I think they 
> should get all the features specified in the P4 ISA doco.  Separate to 
> that, the user might decide to configure that P4 so that certain 
> features (such as xmm) are or are not available or that certain h/w bugs 
> are or are not present ...

Would you step back a little and tell us what it is that you really need?

I'm guessing that the real gdb need is to disassemble for different
architectures, and we currently only have three classes that need
distinguishing: i8086, i386 and x86_64.  All the other possibilities are
just minor variations that the current disassembly code ignores.

If you want some sort of automatic configuration for a simulator, then I
question whether that's necessary.

Alan
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