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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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In-reply-to: <20090223025230.GA11699@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel 	Jacobowitz on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:52:30 -0500)
Subject: Re: [patch] mips-tdep: info registers
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> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:52:30 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 06:08:20PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > (gdb) info registers $1
> > > ../../gdb/mips-tdep.c:4307: internal-error: 
> > > mips_print_registers_info:
> > > Assertion `regnum >= gdbarch_num_regs (current_gdbarch)' 
> > > failed.
> > 
> > Surprisingly, this feature is not documented yet. The documentation
> > mentions "info registers regname", but not "info registers regno".
> > Would you mind adding a line or two and sending a (separate) patch
> > to this list? Eli is the documentation guru...
> 
> Should this feature even exist?  This is a different "$1" than
> anywhere else in GDB you might type that...

I think it shouldn't; the register numbers are internal to GDB an may
change (once they've been properly decoupled from the remote
interface).