Re: [RFA] The MIPS/Linux port

[John Court <court at oz dot agile dot tv>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:57:26AM +1000, John Court wrote:
>
>>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:51:27PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>>>
>>>>Looks like the MIPS port was started before a bit of reformatting of
>>>>the sources and conversion to ISO C took place.  Please
>>>>
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>Fixed.  Do you see any other formatting problems?
>>>
>>Hi Daniel,
>>
>>You have a bug in your  supply_fpregset() and fill_fpregset()
>>routines.  You are being passed an elf_fpregset_t * and incrementing
>>the counter by 264 od bytes each time through the loops.  You
>>need to offload the arguement something like the following before
>>using it with regi.
>>
>>  elf_fpreg_t  *fpregp = &(*fpregsetp)[0];
>>
>>
>>This wont show up very well until you try and load a core dump
>>files which will actually cause gdb to die as it spins off into invalid
>>memory.    I would be surprised if your floating point regs in
>>gdb look any good the way the code is at the moment.
>>I had to look at the assembler to work this out a few days ago.
>>
>
>No, you're wrong.  Note that I say:
>  supply_register (FCRCS_REGNUM, (char *)(*fpregsetp + 32));
>
>&(*fpregsetp)[0] is just fancy notation for *fpregsetp, in this case at
>least.
>
>I specifcally fixed that bug at least three times :)
>
>
In this case I am happy to be wrong :-)    I was working with someone 
elses patches
on 5.0 and missed the extra "*" in your core.    I should have checked more
closely.....I have now and you are right  :-(.

Cheers

John