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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/target.h | 13 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 7f70d4d..82fa8b8 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2009-07-09 Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> + Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> + + * target.h (struct target_ops <to_thread_architecture>): Describe it. + (target_thread_architecture): Refer to to_thread_architecture. + 2009-07-08 Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr> * cli/cli-cmds.c (init_cli_cmds): Add "inf" alias for "info" command. diff --git a/gdb/target.h b/gdb/target.h index 24c803c..c425a5b 100644 --- a/gdb/target.h +++ b/gdb/target.h @@ -543,7 +543,16 @@ struct target_ops simultaneously? */ int (*to_supports_multi_process) (void); - /* Determine current architecture of thread PTID. */ + /* Determine current architecture of thread PTID. + + The target is supposed to determine the architecture of the code where + the target is currently stopped at (on Cell, if a target is in spu_run, + to_thread_architecture would return SPU, otherwise PPC32 or PPC64). + This is architecture used to perform decr_pc_after_break adjustment, + and also determines the frame architecture of the innermost frame. + ptrace operations need to operate according to target_gdbarch. + + The default implementation always returns target_gdbarch. */ struct gdbarch *(*to_thread_architecture) (struct target_ops *, ptid_t); int to_magic; @@ -1043,7 +1052,7 @@ extern char *normal_pid_to_str (ptid_t ptid); #define target_pid_to_exec_file(pid) \ (current_target.to_pid_to_exec_file) (pid) -/* Determine current architecture of thread PTID. */ +/* See the to_thread_architecture description in struct target_ops. */ #define target_thread_architecture(ptid) \ (current_target.to_thread_architecture (¤t_target, ptid)) |