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authorJason Molenda <jmolenda@apple.com>1999-11-09 01:23:30 +0000
committerJason Molenda <jmolenda@apple.com>1999-11-09 01:23:30 +0000
commit11cf87416416e13eff634a70b4954fe6a3912720 (patch)
treea6dc7a21bb3d45b89c3f95e4b5862ec9d2fab83b /gdb/i386-linux-nat.c
parent98007ce7b0dea06f0c04d833d39b5a9c9773a07a (diff)
downloadbinutils-gdb-11cf87416416e13eff634a70b4954fe6a3912720.tar.gz
import gdb-1999-11-08 snapshot
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diff --git a/gdb/i386-linux-nat.c b/gdb/i386-linux-nat.c
index 65731533271..15debfcfb59 100644
--- a/gdb/i386-linux-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/i386-linux-nat.c
@@ -325,6 +325,13 @@ store_fpregs ()
/* Transfering floating-point and SSE registers to and from GDB. */
+/* PTRACE_GETXFPREGS is a Cygnus invention, since we wrote our own
+ Linux kernel patch for SSE support. That patch may or may not
+ actually make it into the official distribution. If you find that
+ years have gone by since this code was added, and Linux isn't using
+ PTRACE_GETXFPREGS, that means that our patch didn't make it, and
+ you can delete this code. */
+
#ifdef HAVE_PTRACE_GETXFPREGS
static void
supply_xfpregset (struct user_xfpregs_struct *xfpregs)