Re: [PATCH v5 18/22] tests/tcg/aarch64: add a gdbstub testcase for SVE registers

[Richard Henderson]

On 1/14/20 5:09 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> A very simple test case which sets and reads SVE registers while
> running a test case. We don't really need to compile a SVE binary for
> this case but we will later so keep it simple for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
> 
> ---
> v5
>   - properly plumb in
>   - skip if fails to connect
> ---
>  tests/.gitignore                      |  1 +
>  tests/tcg/aarch64/Makefile.target     | 15 +++++
>  tests/tcg/aarch64/gdbstub/test-sve.py | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 97 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tests/tcg/aarch64/gdbstub/test-sve.py

I don't understand how this is working.  What's the process that provides the
container for the register state?

I would have expected *some* binary to be used, even if it is only "int main()
{ return 0; }".



r~