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Re: [RFA] W.I.P. AltiVec ppc registers support.

>> So just the core code needs to have a hard-wired (non native header) way 
>> of unpacking Altivec registers (if they are found?)?
> 
> 
> I'm guessing we'll end up having to add fetch_core_registers() and
> company to ppc-linux-nat.c.  That way neither core-regset.c nor
> core-aout.c will be used for a native Linux/PPC build.  (See
> fetch_core_registers() in i386-linux-nat.c as an example.)

No.  The core stuff would need to be kicked out of *-nat.c and into 
*-core.c and/or *-greg.c and/or ???  The packing/unpacking of a reg-set 
is technically only target dependant - debugging a core file from an 
embedded target.

Daniel, how are the changes you were eluding to comming along?

	Andrew
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