From 4b905ae1b4d5f90e5737ee01ab4b7149be8c1fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pedro Franco de Carvalho Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 16:09:03 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] [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 * gdb.texinfo (PowerPC Features): Document the altivec and fpu requirements for the org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx feature. --- gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 12 +++++++----- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 5c0c106b6ca..da732d42364 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2018-11-09 Pedro Franco de Carvalho + + * gdb.texinfo (PowerPC Features): Document the altivec and fpu + requirements for the org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx feature. + 2018-11-01 Joel Brobecker * gdb.texinfo (Ada Tasks): Update the "info task 2" example diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 9756155a398..944a2c43837 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 -- 2.30.2