From: Hollis <hollis-lists@austin.rr.com>
To: Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Modules and CONFIG_ALTIVEC
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:08:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01080518082100.00490@silence.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010805234945.A837@ibrium.se>
On Sunday 05 August 2001 04:49, Samuel Rydh wrote:
> On ppc, the size of thread_struct depends on the CONFIG_ALTIVEC setting.
> Thus, the offset of various task_struct fields are dependent upon this
> config option.
[snip]
> unsigned long fpscr; /* Floating point status */
> -#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
> - vector128 vr[32]; /* Complete AltiVec set */
> - vector128 vscr; /* AltiVec status */
> - unsigned long vrsave;
> -#endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
> + altivec_t *vregs;
This also affects gdb. When gdb reads a core file, it gets upset if the size
of a regset isn't what it thinks it should be. Currently it's a bit too easy
to change that size...
-Hollis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-05 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-05 21:49 Modules and CONFIG_ALTIVEC Samuel Rydh
2001-08-05 23:08 ` Hollis [this message]
2001-08-06 6:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-08-06 8:09 ` Franz Sirl
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