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Re: [RFA] W.I.P. AltiVec ppc registers support.
>> Unfortunately not. I thought the same, until I remembered about core
> > > file debugging. That function is called by fetch_core_registers() in
> > > core-aout.c.
> > > Hmm... I wonder if Linux/PPC even needs this function in core-aout.c.
> > Daniel J. is the expert on this stuff. Daniel, doesn't Linux/PPC use
> > core-regset.c instead?
> > Whoops, yes, you are right. False alarm.
So just the core code needs to have a hard-wired (non native header) way
of unpacking Altivec registers (if they are found?)?
Andrew