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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:05:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
        "[patch/wip] Save/restore cooked registers" (Aug 25,  3:16pm)
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To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/wip] Save/restore cooked registers
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On Aug 25,  3:16pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> The attached is work-in-progress to get gdb saving just a subset of 
> cooked registers when doing things like an inferior function call.

Why is it necessary to save the cooked registers during an inferior
function call?  I would have thought that being able to save/restore
raw registers would be sufficient.

(Or did I miss a thread which explains this?)

Kevin