this is to match the kernel and glibc interfaces. here, struct pt_regs
is an incomplete type, but that's harmless, and if it's completed by
inclusion of another header then members of the struct pointed to by
the regs member can be accessed directly without going through a cast
or intermediate pointer object.
the userspace ucontext API has this as an array rather than a
structure.
commit 3c59a86895 fixed the
corresponding mistake for vrregset_t, namely that the original
powerpc64 port used a mix of types from 32-bit powerpc and powerpc64
rather than matching the 64-bit types.
between v2 and v3 of the powerpc64 port patch, the change was made
from a 32x4 array of 32-bit unsigned ints for vrregs[] to a 32-element
array of __int128. this mismatches the API applications working with
mcontext_t expect from glibc, and seems to have been motivated by a
misinterpretation of a comment on how aarch64 did things as a
suggestion to do the same on powerpc64.
the mistaken layout seems to have been adapted from 32-bit powerpc,
where vscr and vrsave are packed into the same 128-bit slot in a way
that looks like it relies on non-overlapping-ness of the value bits in
big endian.
the powerpc64 port accounted for the fact that the 64-bit ABI puts
each in its own 128-bit slot, but ordered them incorrectly (matching
the bit order used on the 32-bit ABI), and failed to account for vscr
being padded according to endianness so that it can be accessed via
vector moves.
in addition to ABI layout, our definition used different logical
member layout/naming from glibc, where vscr is a structure to
facilitate access as a 32-bit word or a 128-bit vector. the
inconsistency here was unintentional, so fix it.
