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[rfc/rft] [0/5] Untangle register_addr et. al.
- From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:07:27 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: [rfc/rft] [0/5] Untangle register_addr et. al.
Hello,
the following series of 5 patches attempts to untangle everything related
to "traditional" ptrace-based register access. Overall, the patch set:
- Removes every definition of the global register_addr function.
- Removes most NM file definitions of KERNEL_U_SIZE, U_REGS_OFFSET,
KERNEL_U_ADDR, and REGISTER_U_ADDR (except on OSF and AIX).
- Removes all NM file definitions of CANNOT_STORE_REGISTER and
CANNOT_FETCH_REGISTER.
- Completely removes core-aout.c
- Adds a linux_trad_target () function to simplify use of traditional
register access in a Linux target.
- Gets rid of nearly all platform nm-linux.h files (except i386).
While not all portions of this are completely mechanical, the patch set
should not actually change the behaviour of any target (except core file
handling on alpha-linux, which should in fact improve ...).
However, as I don't have access to the majority of the affected native
targets, I'd appreciate any volunteers to test test patch set, in
particular on mips-linux and alpha-linux.
I'd also appreciate any comments on the patch set: is this the right
think to do at this point; am I overlooking anything here?
Thanks,
Ulrich
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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com