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| author | Pedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com> | 2018-11-09 16:09:03 -0200 |
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| committer | Pedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com> | 2018-11-09 16:09:03 -0200 |
| commit | 4b905ae1b4d5f90e5737ee01ab4b7149be8c1fe5 (patch) | |
| tree | 61c3e6c3bb6b13a059be1ddfd8bf275b2ec63030 | |
| parent | 5d762de01cc537cec47d3c7bbae0424a33b33b04 (diff) | |
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[PowerPC] Document requirements for VSX feature
As suggested in
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-10/msg00510.html, this
patch changes the documentation for the VSX tdesc feature to make it
clear that the altivec and FPU features are requirements.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2018-11-09 Pedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com>
* gdb.texinfo (PowerPC Features): Document the altivec and fpu
requirements for the org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx feature.
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 12 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 5c0c106..da732d4 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2018-11-09 Pedro Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com> + + * gdb.texinfo (PowerPC Features): Document the altivec and fpu + requirements for the org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx feature. + 2018-11-01 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> * gdb.texinfo (Ada Tasks): Update the "info task 2" example diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 9756155..944a2c4 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -43230,11 +43230,13 @@ contain registers @samp{vr0} through @samp{vr31}, @samp{vscr}, and @samp{vrsave}. The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx} feature is optional. It should -contain registers @samp{vs0h} through @samp{vs31h}. @value{GDBN} -will combine these registers with the floating point registers -(@samp{f0} through @samp{f31}) and the altivec registers (@samp{vr0} -through @samp{vr31}) to present the 128-bit wide registers @samp{vs0} -through @samp{vs63}, the set of vector registers for POWER7. +contain registers @samp{vs0h} through @samp{vs31h}. @value{GDBN} will +combine these registers with the floating point registers (@samp{f0} +through @samp{f31}) and the altivec registers (@samp{vr0} through +@samp{vr31}) to present the 128-bit wide registers @samp{vs0} through +@samp{vs63}, the set of vector-scalar registers for POWER7. +Therefore, this feature requires both @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.fpu} and +@samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.altivec}. The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.spe} feature is optional. It should contain registers @samp{ev0h} through @samp{ev31h}, @samp{acc}, and |