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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: hjl.tools@gmail.com,  msnyder@vmware.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003121631.33499.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iq9134rm.fsf@gnu.org>

On Friday 12 March 2010 16:04:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > So, should that sentence of the manual be relaxed?
> 
> 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?

Yes.  That's what the code does too, hence this issue.

E.g., on archs with a real "$fp" register, in -fomit-frame-pointer
functions, $fp evals to the contents of the reg (which can
be anything), while on other archs it prints the unwinder's
notion of frame base.

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

There was one just now.  :-)

> > I guess this would be a good place to at least mention the x86 $sp
> > is always $esp or $rsp.
> 
> Yes, I think so.

-- 
Pedro Alves


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-12 16:31 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
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 [this message]
2010-03-02 21:58                   ` H.J. Lu

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