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-rw-r--r--gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c45
2 files changed, 42 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
index 3fb143c..c860daf 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2014-09-08 Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+
+ * linux-ppc-low.c (ppc_collect_ptrace_register): Adjust routine to take
+ endianness into account.
+ (ppc_supply_ptrace_register): Likewise.
+
2014-09-03 James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
* linux-mips-low.c (mips_read_description): Reset errno to 0 prior
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c b/gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c
index d743311..8fd4b38 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/linux-ppc-low.c
@@ -202,25 +202,52 @@ ppc_cannot_fetch_register (int regno)
static void
ppc_collect_ptrace_register (struct regcache *regcache, int regno, char *buf)
{
- int size = register_size (regcache->tdesc, regno);
-
memset (buf, 0, sizeof (long));
- if (size < sizeof (long))
- collect_register (regcache, regno, buf + sizeof (long) - size);
+ if (__BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN)
+ {
+ /* Little-endian values always sit at the left end of the buffer. */
+ collect_register (regcache, regno, buf);
+ }
+ else if (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN)
+ {
+ /* Big-endian values sit at the right end of the buffer. In case of
+ registers whose sizes are smaller than sizeof (long), we must use a
+ padding to access them correctly. */
+ int size = register_size (regcache->tdesc, regno);
+
+ if (size < sizeof (long))
+ collect_register (regcache, regno, buf + sizeof (long) - size);
+ else
+ collect_register (regcache, regno, buf);
+ }
else
- collect_register (regcache, regno, buf);
+ perror_with_name ("Unexpected byte order");
}
static void
ppc_supply_ptrace_register (struct regcache *regcache,
int regno, const char *buf)
{
- int size = register_size (regcache->tdesc, regno);
- if (size < sizeof (long))
- supply_register (regcache, regno, buf + sizeof (long) - size);
+ if (__BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN)
+ {
+ /* Little-endian values always sit at the left end of the buffer. */
+ supply_register (regcache, regno, buf);
+ }
+ else if (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN)
+ {
+ /* Big-endian values sit at the right end of the buffer. In case of
+ registers whose sizes are smaller than sizeof (long), we must use a
+ padding to access them correctly. */
+ int size = register_size (regcache->tdesc, regno);
+
+ if (size < sizeof (long))
+ supply_register (regcache, regno, buf + sizeof (long) - size);
+ else
+ supply_register (regcache, regno, buf);
+ }
else
- supply_register (regcache, regno, buf);
+ perror_with_name ("Unexpected byte order");
}