Re: [RFC] New info command for win32 native target

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:22:55PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pierre Muller wrote:
>
>>    This patch adds a new win32 native specific command:
>> "info sel"
>
>Thanks.  A couple of comments:
>
>  - this command needs to be documented in gdb.texinfo, similarly to 
>    "info dos ldt" and friends (and in the same chapter, but in a 
>    different subsection);

Agree.

>  - since it's a Windows-specific command, I suggest to name it
>    "info w32 sel" or "info windows sel" or maybe "info cygwin sel":
>    something that will tell it's not available on every platform
>    (actually, using ``seg'' instead of ``sel'' might probably be even 
>    better, since the information you show is about a segment whose 
>    selector is passed as an argument);

Agree.  Probably w32 is a good choice since this could potentially work
on mingw.

>  - I think it's a good idea to make the format used to print the segment
>    as similar as possible to the one used by "info dos ..." commands;

Agree. If there is a similar command, it should certainly use it.

>  - why do you only print CS, DS, and FS if no argument is given? why not 
>    all of the segment registers? I think at least SS and GS might be 
>    interesting
>
>Finally, will this work on non-x86 systems running MS-Windows (assuming
>Cygwin supports such systems)?  The register names are x86-specific, 
>right?

Cygwin only works on x86 system.  That's not likely to change anytime soon.

cgf