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Re: [RFA] x86-64 segment registers handling


On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:26:43PM +0100, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> Hi all,
> this patch synces gdb with recent ABI changes in x86-64 kernel, which 
> added segment registers to user_regs_struct in corefile and ptrace() 
> call. Because it was hard to find all places which could depend on this 
> change I also did a cleanup. I joined most of registers information to 
> one structure at the beginning of x86-64-tdep.c to make it more readable 
>  and maintainable and changed some "anonymous constants" (numbers) to 
> derivatives of #defines.
> Can I commit?
> 
> Index: ChangeLog

> 	* x86-64-linux-nat.c (x86_64_regmap): Swapped
> 	RBX <> RDX, added DS, ES, FD, GS

Can you update gdbserver/linux-x86-64-low.c with these changes, please?

> 	(x86_64_linux_dr_get_status), (supply_gregset),
> 	(fill_gregset): Changed X86_64_NUM_GREGS to
> 	x86_64_num_gregs
> 	* x86-64-tdep.c (x86_64_register_raw_size_table): Delete
> 	(x86_64_register_info_table): Add
> 	(X86_64_NUM_REGS, X86_64_NUM_GREGS): Add
> 	(x86_64_register_raw_size),
> 	(x86_64_register_virtual_type),
> 	(x86_64_register_name),
> 	(_initialize_x86_64_tdep): Changed to reflect new
> 	general x86_64_register_info_table.
> 	(i386_gdbarch_init): gdbarch_register_bytes is now set
> 	dynamicaly during initialization.

Also, it appears that you changed the layout of GDB's register cache
for x86-64.  At this time that means you also changed the remote
protocol.  regformats/reg-x86-64.dat also needs to be updated.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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