Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers

Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-02T17:54:45Z

> 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.