On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 19:00 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: > Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Mark Nelson wrote: > > > >> Update dump_task_altivec() (that has so far never been put to use) > >> so that it dumps the Altivec/VMX registers (VR[0] - VR[31], VSCR > >> and VRSAVE) in the same format as the ptrace get_vrregs() and add > >> the appropriate glue typedefs and #defines to > >> include/asm-powerpc/elf.h for it to work. > > > > Is there some way to tell if the core dump has altivec registers > > state in it? > > > > I'm wondering how we distinguish a core dump w/altivec state vs one > > with SPE state. > > Sheer number of registers saved? > > Why not put the PVR in core dumps that'd make it all easier..
PVR wouldn't be very useful... What if you have altivec disabled ? Also that would mean your gdb has to know about all new processors... Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
