From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 580 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2010 14:53:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 565 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Mar 2010 14:53:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:53:39 +0000 Received: (qmail 29432 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2010 14:53:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO caradoc.them.org) (dan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 22 Mar 2010 14:53:37 -0000 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:53:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: teawater@gmail.com, msnyder@vmware.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, hjl.tools@gmail.com Subject: Re: [RFA 3/5] Prec: x86 segment register support: target Message-ID: <20100322145332.GA3061@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , teawater@gmail.com, msnyder@vmware.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, hjl.tools@gmail.com References: <4B9FCA21.9020904@vmware.com> <20100316200424.GA29097@caradoc.them.org> <201003221433.o2MEXt0J031478@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201003221433.o2MEXt0J031478@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00756.txt.bz2 On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:33:55PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Sorry, but I don't think adding these xx_base registers is a good > idea. They are not acrhitected registers so they don't beling in the > list of registers. What do you suggest instead? I don't know a lot about the details of the x86 architecture. But I've heard a lot of complaints that what people want to see when they say "print $gs" is not what we're showing them, and that this base address is useful. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery