From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Alves Subject: Re: [patch v3 19/36] Hexagon: Add ptrace support Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:29:57 +0100 Message-ID: <201109101229.58445.pedro@codesourcery.com> References: <20110909010847.294039464@codeaurora.org> <20110909211808.GA3150@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jonas Bonn Cc: "Linas Vepstas (Code Aurora)" , Richard Kuo , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de 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. -- Pedro Alves