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Lazily and dynamically create i386-linux target descriptions
authorYao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:39:54 +0000 (14:39 +0100)
committerYao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:39:54 +0000 (14:39 +0100)
commitea03d0d3c32b22aeddfeb139a4a515f7e5961347
tree93bd39d275e82ffe4e66a7ca209540aa031c29f9
parent25aa13e522c595cbdbb3868f1daa434a17ba2ab2
Lazily and dynamically create i386-linux target descriptions

Instead of using pre-generated target descriptions, this patch
changes GDB to lazily and dynamically create target descriptions
according to the target hardware capability (xcr0 in i386).
This support any combination of target features.

Some reg in target description has "regnum" attribute, so its register
number is got from the attribute value instead from sequential allocation.

  <reg name="xmm0" bitsize="128" type="vec128" regnum="32"/>

when target description is created, it should match the regnum, so this
patch adds a new field m_next_regnum to track it, if attribute number is
greater than the m_next_regnum, print the code to set register number
explicitly.

gdb:

2017-07-26  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>

* i386-linux-tdep.c: Don't include features/i386/i386-*linux.c.
Include features/i386/32bit-*.c.
(i386_linux_read_description): Generate target description if it
doesn't exist.
(_initialize_i386_linux_tdep): Don't call _initialize_tdesc_i386
functions.
* features/i386/32bit-linux.c: Re-generated.
* features/i386/32bit-sse.c: Likewise.
* target-descriptions.c (print_c_feature::visit): Print code to
set register number if needed.
(print_c_feature) <m_next_regnum>: New field.
gdb/ChangeLog
gdb/features/i386/32bit-linux.c
gdb/features/i386/32bit-sse.c
gdb/i386-linux-tdep.c
gdb/target-descriptions.c