From FEDORA_PATCHES Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keith Seitz Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:02:19 -0500 Subject: gdb-rhbz1187581-power8-regs-not-in-8.2-15of15.patch ;; [PowerPC] Document requirements for VSX feature ;; Pedro Franco de Carvalho, RH BZ 1187581 [PowerPC] Document requirements for VSX feature As suggested in https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-10/msg00510.html, this patch changes the documentation for the VSX tdesc feature to make it clear that the altivec and FPU features are requirements. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: 2018-11-09 Pedro Franco de Carvalho * gdb.texinfo (PowerPC Features): Document the altivec and fpu requirements for the org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx feature. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -42541,11 +42541,13 @@ contain registers @samp{vr0} through @samp{vr31}, @samp{vscr}, and @samp{vrsave}. The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.vsx} feature is optional. It should -contain registers @samp{vs0h} through @samp{vs31h}. @value{GDBN} -will combine these registers with the floating point registers -(@samp{f0} through @samp{f31}) and the altivec registers (@samp{vr0} -through @samp{vr31}) to present the 128-bit wide registers @samp{vs0} -through @samp{vs63}, the set of vector registers for POWER7. +contain registers @samp{vs0h} through @samp{vs31h}. @value{GDBN} will +combine these registers with the floating point registers (@samp{f0} +through @samp{f31}) and the altivec registers (@samp{vr0} through +@samp{vr31}) to present the 128-bit wide registers @samp{vs0} through +@samp{vs63}, the set of vector-scalar registers for POWER7. +Therefore, this feature requires both @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.fpu} and +@samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.altivec}. The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.power.spe} feature is optional. It should contain registers @samp{ev0h} through @samp{ev31h}, @samp{acc}, and