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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2002-02-04 16:27:22 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2002-02-04 16:27:22 +0000
commitfd8a746a096f887e9299ecb90e87363cf38367be (patch)
treea3611a7bed61506ecbfd7a36f40ab6caca27ebd5 /sim/arm
parentb0232556250bf6319795d80884bd616d2a67692d (diff)
downloadgdb-fd8a746a096f887e9299ecb90e87363cf38367be.tar.gz
If a v5 architecture is detected, assume it might be an XScale binary, since
there is no way to distinguish between the two in the COFF file format.
Diffstat (limited to 'sim/arm')
-rw-r--r--sim/arm/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--sim/arm/wrapper.c9
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sim/arm/ChangeLog b/sim/arm/ChangeLog
index 3b954d09bba..fbfc595a405 100644
--- a/sim/arm/ChangeLog
+++ b/sim/arm/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-02-04 Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>
+
+ * wrapper.c: If a v5 architecture is detected, assume it might be
+ an XScale binary, since there is no way to distinguish between
+ the two in the COFF file format.
+
2002-01-10 Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>
* arminit.c (ARMul_Abort): Fix parameters passed to CPRead[13].
diff --git a/sim/arm/wrapper.c b/sim/arm/wrapper.c
index 524377d374c..c2fd8bececd 100644
--- a/sim/arm/wrapper.c
+++ b/sim/arm/wrapper.c
@@ -234,6 +234,15 @@ sim_create_inferior (sd, abfd, argv, env)
break;
case bfd_mach_arm_5:
+ /* This is a special case in order to support COFF based ARM toolchains.
+ The COFF header does not have enough room to store all the different
+ kinds of ARM cpu, so the XScale, v5T and v5TE architectures all default
+ to v5. (See coff_set_flags() in bdf/coffcode.h). So if we see a v5
+ machine type here, we assume it could be any of the above architectures
+ and so select the most feature-full. */
+ ARMul_SelectProcessor (state, ARM_v5_Prop | ARM_v5e_Prop | ARM_XScale_Prop);
+ break;
+
case bfd_mach_arm_5T:
ARMul_SelectProcessor (state, ARM_v5_Prop);
break;