Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers

H.J. Lu
2010-03-02T19:01:50Z

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:04:46 -0500
>> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
>> Cc: GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>> > > IMO, this is useful enough for a NEWS entry.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Like this?
>> >
>> > diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
>> > index 6cec32a..b29fa6c 100644
>> > --- a/gdb/NEWS
>> > +++ b/gdb/NEWS
>> > @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
>> >
>> >  *** Changes since GDB 7.1
>> >
>> > +* X86 pseudo registers
>> > +
>> > +  GDB now supports 8bit, 16bit and 32bit x86 pseudo registers.
>> > +
>> >  * Python scripting
>> >
>> >  The GDB Python API now has access to symbols, symbol tables, and
>> >
>>
>> That won't mean anything to users; they don't know what a pseudo
>> register is.
>
> I agree.  We should try to explain more.
>

How about

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* X86 general purpose registers

GDB now supports reading/writing byte, word and double word x86
general purpose registers directly.
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H.J.