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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c b/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c index 0c5563ee398..049cde8d96c 100644 --- a/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c +++ b/gdb/ppc-linux-nat.c @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ typedef char gdb_vrregset_t[SIZEOF_VRREGS]; typedef char gdb_vsxregset_t[SIZEOF_VSXREGS]; -/* On PPC processors that support the the Signal Processing Extension +/* On PPC processors that support the Signal Processing Extension (SPE) APU, the general-purpose registers are 64 bits long. However, the ordinary Linux kernel PTRACE_PEEKUSER / PTRACE_POKEUSER ptrace calls only access the lower half of each register, to allow @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ typedef char gdb_vsxregset_t[SIZEOF_VSXREGS]; GDB itself continues to claim the general-purpose registers are 32 bits long. It has unnamed raw registers that hold the upper halves - of the gprs, and the the full 64-bit SIMD views of the registers, + of the gprs, and the full 64-bit SIMD views of the registers, 'ev0' -- 'ev31', are pseudo-registers that splice the top and bottom halves together. |