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More i386 architectures?

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Fri Nov 2 10:05:00 GMT 2001 
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 08:32:53PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> As part of this, GDB uses BFD's archures to identify ISA variants. 
>> Unfortunatly, looking at the i386, things are pretty thin on the ground 
>> - only i8086 and i386 are present. 
>> 
>> Does anyone object to me padding this out with (at a guess):
>> 
>> ..._i386sx
>> ..._i386_p1
>> ..._i386_p1_mmx
>> ..._i386_p2
>> ..._i386_p3
>> ..._i386_p4
> 
> 
> That's going to be intractable.  You'd be much better off using
> the CPUID flags that identify the set of ISA extensions that the
> cpu supports.

Sorry you've lost me here.  I'm refering to a data structure provided by 
BFD and used by GDB to identify architectures and architecture variants.

GDB might, where pratical, use this CPUID flag to select the 
architecture but that is a separate problem.

Andrew
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