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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:04:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:08:37AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 09:01:52AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This patch supports 8bit, 16bit and 32bit x86 pseudo registers. OK
> >> to install?
> >
> > 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.  Does the architecture have a standard name for these
things?  Partial registers or something like that?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery