Re: [patch] registers beginning with '$'

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:39:21AM +0000, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:32:29AM +0000, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>I had the misfortune to port to an architecture where register names
> >>all start with a '$' and the pc reg is '$PC'.  This patch fixes expression
> >>printing of registers so that such names don't result in '$$name' being
> >>printed.  It fixes register name lookup so that the leading '$' need not
> >>be specified (several places strip leading '$' on the name to be looked
> >>up).  It also makes the register name lookup case insensitive.
> >>
> >>I also attach testsuite patches to allow $pc or $PC as the pc name.
> >>
> >>built and tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu, and an unreleased architecture, ok?
> >
> >
> >This one I'm less sure about.  If you tell GDB the register names do
> >not contain '$', what output is wrong?
> 
> The output from the 'info regs' command will then not have the '$'.

Then you should provide gdbarch_print_registers_info; you can make this
look however you want on a per-target basis.
 
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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