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authorPedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com>2019-01-14 17:28:53 -0200
committerPedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com>2019-01-14 17:28:53 -0200
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[PowerPC] Aliases for vector registers
This patch defines pseudo-registers "v0" through "v31" as aliases that map to the corresponding raw "vr0" through "vr31" vector registers for Power. The motivation behind this is that although GDB defines these registers as "vrX", the disassembler prints them as "vX", e.g. as the operands in instructions such as "vaddubm v2,v1,v1". This can be confusing to users trying to print out the values of the operands while inspecting the disassembled code. The new aliases are made not to belong to any register group, to avoid duplicated values in "info register vector" and "info register all". The arch-specific rs6000_pseudo_register_reggroup_p function had previously been removed since the other pseudo-registers could have their groups inferred by their type. It restored with this patch to handle the aliases. Membership for the other pseudo-registers is still determined using the default function. A new tests checks that GDB prints the expected values of vector registers after they are filled by the inferior, by using both the raw names and the aliases. Two other existing tests are modified to also test the aliases. gdb/ChangeLog: 2019-01-14 Pedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com> * ppc-tdep.h (struct gdbarch_tdep) <ppc_v0_alias_regnum>: New field. * rs6000-tdep.c: Include reggroups.h. (IS_V_ALIAS_PSEUDOREG): Define. (rs6000_register_name): Return names for the "vX" aliases. (rs6000_pseudo_register_type): Return type for the "vX" aliases. (rs6000_pseudo_register_reggroup_p): Restore. Handle "vX" aliases. Call default_register_reggroup_p for all other pseudo-registers. (v_alias_pseudo_register_read, v_alias_pseudo_register_write): New functions. (rs6000_pseudo_register_read, rs6000_pseudo_register_write): Handle "vX" aliases. (v_alias_pseudo_register_collect): New function. (rs6000_ax_pseudo_register_collect): Handle "vX" aliases. (rs6000_gdbarch_init): Initialize "vX" aliases as pseudo-registers. Restore registration of rs6000_pseudo_register_reggroup_p with set_tdesc_pseudo_register_reggroup_p. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2019-01-14 Pedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com> * gdb.arch/vsx-regs.exp: Add tests that use the vector register aliases. * gdb.arch/altivec-regs.exp: Likewise. Fix indentation of two tests. * gdb.arch/powerpc-vector-regs.c: New file. * gdb.arch/powerpc-vector-regs.exp: New file. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: 2019-01-14 Pedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com> * gdb.texinfo (PowerPC Features): Document the alias pseudo-registers for the org.gnu.gdb.power.altivec feature.
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diff --git a/gdb/ppc-tdep.h b/gdb/ppc-tdep.h
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--- a/gdb/ppc-tdep.h
+++ b/gdb/ppc-tdep.h
@@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ struct gdbarch_tdep
int ppc_vr0_regnum; /* First AltiVec register. */
int ppc_vrsave_regnum; /* Last AltiVec register. */
+ /* Altivec pseudo-register vX aliases for the raw vrX
+ registers. */
+ int ppc_v0_alias_regnum;
+
/* SPE registers. */
int ppc_ev0_upper_regnum; /* First GPR upper half register. */
int ppc_ev0_regnum; /* First ev register. */