From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11530 invoked by alias); 28 Apr 2003 16:15:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11522 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2003 16:15:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (146.82.138.56) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Apr 2003 16:15:09 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19ABHo-0003He-00; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:15:24 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19ABHT-0007ur-00; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:15:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:30:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: patch for printing 64-bit values in i386 registers; STABS format Message-ID: <20030428161503.GB30324@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200304242231.h3OMVqM13587@dhcp357.corp.google.com> <20030425002744.GA9492@nevyn.them.org> <200304252121.h3PLLD8I000461@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <20030425213548.GA22505@nevyn.them.org> <3EA9B6AE.90001@redhat.com> <200304272044.h3RKivcZ000307@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <3EAD5251.8030003@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EAD5251.8030003@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00524.txt.bz2 On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:09:53PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > It's possible to fix this without adding an architecture method, or > > implementing location expressions (the penny just dropped). The basic > > problem is the same as for the MIPS - need a custom register area. > > Hence: > > > > - define a sequence of nameless cooked ([NUM_REGS .. > > NUM_REGS+NUM_PSEUDO_REGS) range) registers ordered the way stabs would > > like them > > - modify the existing stabs_regnum_to_regnum to map the messed up > > registers onto those values > > > >Ugh, Yuck! Yes it works, but isn't this a terrible hack? Oh and > >using nameless cooked registers means that > > > > info address variable > > > >no longer prints the right thing if variable lives in a register. > > Hmm, so that's the command I can never remember. Fortunatly, I think > the `unnamed' restriction is removed. They can be named as GDB should > now be relying on reggroups to determine which registers are valid where. Nowadays print &variable will do it also. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer