Re: Changes required for x86 address spaces

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Richard Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Here are some notes regarding gdb changes required in order to support
>
>   https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-10/msg01972.html
>
> In my opinion, DW_AT_address_class is best when the alternate address space
> is truely disjoint, or has a different pointer width.  That certainly
> matches up with the language in the dwarf4 doc, and existing usage in the
> embedded targets.
>
> Thus I've arranged for these x86 address spaces to use DW_AT_segment, a
> dwarf location containing an offset from the flat address space.  For the
> purposes of the debug info, I map __seg_tls to __seg_fs or __seg_gs.
>
> The x86-64 abi already has dwarf register numbers allocated for fs_base and
> gs_base.  Thus the location is simply the trivial DW_OP_regx 58 or 59
> respectively.  The i386 abi does not yet have the same register number
> pre-allocated; the latest version I see in HJL's github document has dwarf
> registers 58-59 within a block of reserved values, so for now I'm using the
> same values for both x86-64 and i386.
>

Table 2.14: DWARF Register Number Mapping in Intel386 psABI:

https://github.com/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/wiki/X86-psABI

defines

Segment Register ES 40 %es
Segment Register CS 41 %cs
Segment Register SS 42 %ss
Segment Register DS 43 %ds
Segment Register FS 44 %fs
Segment Register GS 45 %gs

Why not use them?


-- 
H.J.