Re: [PATCH v2] gdb/record: avoid rax usage in i386-avx-record.exp

Simon Marchi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/13/26 9:10 AM, Guinevere Larsen wrote:
> My recent commit, 1c04308f0958cbac83bad22703758139ea6969b6:
> 
>     Author: Guinevere Larsen <[email protected]>
>     Date:   Tue Jun 16 16:03:43 2026 -0300
>     gdb/record: add support for BMI2 instructions
> 
> Introduced a few tests that rely on the rax register being set before
> entering the function. This isn't reliable, as programs compiled with
> gcc-14 and earlier will have the register. To avoid compiler versions

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It's not clear to me what the problem is, could you explain it in simple
words :)?

Simon
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