Re: [hppa patch] Fix register definitions for hppa

"Carlos O'Donell" <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:35:26 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.hppa,gmane.comp.gdb.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/3/07, Randolph Chung <[email protected]> wrote:
> Remember that gdb is reading the cr27 of the debuggee, not of itself, so
> __set_cr27 is irrelevant.

Is it usefull to be able to adjust the inferior's thread register?

>  From the architecture point of view, CR26 and CR27 are only readable
> from userspace, so gdb should not enable somebody to set them from
> inside gdb.

Would it be usefull to adjust the thread register when debugging glibc?

Cheers,
Carlos.