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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c b/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c index 4d8f503..987c64b 100644 --- a/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c +++ b/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c @@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ typedef char gdb_vrregset_t[SIZEOF_VRREGS]; /* On PPC processors that support the the Signal Processing Extension (SPE) APU, the general-purpose registers are 64 bits long. - However, the ordinary Linux PTRACE_PEEKUSR / PTRACE_POKEUSR / - PT_READ_U / PT_WRITE_U ptrace calls only access the lower half of + However, the ordinary Linux kernel PTRACE_PEEKUSR / PTRACE_POKEUSR + / PT_READ_U / PT_WRITE_U ptrace calls only access the lower half of each register, to allow them to behave the same way they do on non-SPE systems. There's a separate pair of calls, PTRACE_GETEVRREGS / PTRACE_SETEVRREGS, that read and write the top |