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Re: [PATCH] Support for Xilinx MicroBlaze
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:48:57AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> >>+ struct regcache *regcache = get_current_regcache ();
> >
> >This one raised a red flag, as we try to avoid depending on global
> >variables. But I'm not sure what the kosher way of getting the regcache
> >would be. I thought there would be method to get the regcache from
> >a frame, but apparently not. Perhaps the right way is to use
> >get_thread_arch_regcache (inferior_ptid, gdbarch), but I'm not sure.
> >I'll ask Ulrich, who knows this area a lot better.
>
> I wasn't able to find a better way to get the regcache either. Perhaps
> it's known farther up the call tree, but it isn't passed to the
> software single step routine.
Why do you need the regcache, rather than getting registers from the
frame?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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