From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10618 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2010 14:00:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 10608 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Feb 2010 14:00:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:00:15 +0000 Received: (qmail 10485 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2010 14:00:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO caradoc.them.org) (dan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 3 Feb 2010 14:00:14 -0000 Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:00:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: hjl.tools@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Add regcache_raw_supply_part/regcache_raw_collect_part Message-ID: <20100203140011.GB27938@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , hjl.tools@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20100203033131.GA21501@lucon.org> <201002030914.o139E4Ti027331@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201002030914.o139E4Ti027331@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-02/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:14:04AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > I think introducing these functions would be a mistake. If you're not > careful, you'll end up with a register cache where part of some > registers is filled with garbage. I agree. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery