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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org, 	hjl.tools@gmail.com,
	msnyder@vmware.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100312162949.GA22104@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iq9134rm.fsf@gnu.org>

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 06:04:45PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Maybe, but frankly I don't really understand what it says, exactly.
> Does it mean that if the name does clash with the architecture, the
> architecture's meaning is used?

I think that's what was intended.

> Anyway, are there any such conflicts in the current codebase?

Yeah, there are.  On some platforms, "$fp" is a GDB-computed value
based on the frame unwinder.  On others, it's a register that may or
may not have a frame pointer in it right now.  For instance, $fp on
ARM is r11; "fp" on M68K is between a5 and sp.  On i386 it's
calculated.  You'll get different results for this:

(gdb) p $fp
$1 = (void *) 0x7fffffffdec0
(gdb) p $fp --
Left operand of assignment is not an lvalue.

Whaddaya mean $fp isn't an lvalue?  Oh, it's an internal value, not an
alias for $rbp.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-12 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-01 17:02 H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 11:17 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-02 13:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-02 14:08   ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 15:04     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-02 15:37       ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 17:54       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-02 19:01         ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 20:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-02 21:06             ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 21:47               ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-02 21:52                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-02 21:57                   ` Michael Snyder
2010-03-02 22:00                     ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 22:07                       ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-03 17:33                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-03 17:53                           ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-03 18:09                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-03 20:20                               ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12  4:23                           ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-12  5:32                             ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12  6:07                               ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 18:22                               ` Michael Snyder
2010-03-12  8:30                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 15:26                               ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-12 16:04                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 16:30                                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2010-03-12 18:14                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 18:20                                       ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-12 18:55                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 19:47                                           ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 16:31                                   ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-02 21:58                   ` H.J. Lu

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