Re: [patch] Add PS_REGNUM.

Andrew Cagney
2002-04-07T21:08:47Z

> I think it is the other way round. PS_REGNUM is the only one being used
>> correctly - when >=0, std-regs.c (new file) maps $ps onto a
>> hardware/pseudo register. Cf the GDB manual.
>>
>> On the other hand FP_REGNUM, PC_REGNUM and SP_REGNUM that are being used
>> ``incorrectly''(1). They have no meaning outside of std-regs.c yet are
>> used throughout GDB.
>
>
> So what you're saying is that you added PS_REGNUM so that it could be
> used as a standard $ps register name, not for the rest of GDB, right?

Yes. And that is how FP_REGNUM et.al. should be used ....

> I don't really see the point; anyone who wants to look at the processor
> status register presumably knows what some of the bits in it mean,
> which is entirely architecture dependant. But caveat implementor :)

Who am I to argue with the documentation :-)

Andrew