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From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:01:43PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > > Linux-mips was cc'd, but I'm adding Thomas B to the cc here explicitly
> > > just so that he has a heads-up on this thing and can go and look at
> > > the mailing list in case it goes to a separate mailbox for him..
> > 
> > I would certainly appreciate review and testing - this branch sat
> > around in the "should post it someday" state since June (it was
> > one of the followups grown from regset work back then), and I'm
> > _not_ going to ask pulling it without an explicit OK from mips
> > folks.
> 
>  It may be worth pushing through GDB's gdb.threads/tls-core.exp test case, 
> making sure no UNSUPPORTED results have been produced due to resource 
> limits preventing a core from being dumped (and no FAILs, of course), with 
> o32/n32 native GDB.  This should guarantee our output is still as expected 
> by an interpreter.  Sadly I'm currently not set up for such testing though 
> eventually I mean to.

Umm...  What triple does one use for n32 gdb?