Re: [patch v3 19/36] Hexagon: Add ptrace support

Linas Vepstas (Code Aurora)
2011-09-19T15:25:13Z

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:29:57PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Saturday 10 September 2011 07:42:26, Jonas Bonn wrote:
>
> > I'm really not an expert on GDB, but I believe it can use either the
> > PEEK/POKE functions to access regs, or it can use GET/SETREGS; it's an
> > architecture-dependent configuration. I think the second variant can
> > be easily modified to become GET/SETREGSET instead, and the PEEK/POKE
> > variant wouldn't be needed at all.
>
> Yes, the x86/x86-64 ports or gdb and gdbserver are already
> using GET/SETREGSET even.

Reading the code, it seemed to only fetch "extended state" in
this way, and not all of the registers. Am I mistaken?

--linas