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Re: [patch] Fix power7 ppc64 binaries loading
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at br dot ibm dot com>, Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:33:40 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patch] Fix power7 ppc64 binaries loading
- References: <20090302210237.GA23798@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20090302212403.GA3473@caradoc.them.org>
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:24:03 +0100, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Did you test this on an e500 binary? "any" won't work, we should
> probably parse the apuinfo dump instead of assuming it always means
> e500. SPE is incompatible with classic FP.
No e500 test by hand. But GDB does not work out of the box even for power7
(and possibly others).
I agree it may be a regression for e500 binaries. Although the second patch
makes it possible to handle all using `set powerpc disassembler-options'.
I agree apuinfo should be parsed.
Thanks,
Jan