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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:47:35PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Who can help out here?  I can help with wording, if someone tells the
> story.

Presumably H. J. knows why he wrote the patch?

I presume it lets us say $ah or $ax in addition to $eax, and lets $eax
work on 64-bit systems where we really have $rax.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery