[PATCH, ARM] Fix Dwarf register numbering for VFPv3/Neon registers

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Fri Oct 30 10:14:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 16:35 +0000, Julian Brown wrote:
> +     The recommended encodings for S0-S31 is a DW_OP_bit_piece of the
> +     corresponding D register.  However gdb6.6 does not support this,
> so
> +     we use the legacy encodings.  We also use these encodings for
> D0-D15
> +     for compatibility with older debuggers.  */

This comment implies that the problem was probably fixed in gdb-6.7
which is now over two years (and three releases ago).  Is the comment
wrong, or do we now support this.  Given the status of the VFP support
in GDB, I would really expect that someone wanting to debug VFP would
need a more recent version of the debugger than 6.6 anyway, so I
wouldn't see that as a reason for keeping the old numbering.

R.



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