Re: [PATCH 0/7] Intel(R) MPX registers support.

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

> From: "Tedeschi, Walfred" <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:42:16 +0000
> 
> Hello Mark,
> 
> First of all thanks for your quick response!
> 
> I am not sure if I understood your question right. I understood that you
> would like to have it at the bottom of the list always since it is a fake
> register. Is this right?

Right.  Otherwise the generic (non-Linux) mappings end up with funny
holes.

> In the current implementation, all numbers taken cannot be renumbered in
> upcoming new features or extensions. Only taking new slots is possible. In
> the case of the mentioned register it was already taken for amd64-linux.
> Please correct me if I am wrong here. ;)

The GDB internal registers can be renumbered.  In fact we did this
when the AVX support was added.  What you cannot change is the layout
of the registers in the various target descriptions, because those
define the on-the-wire format used in the remote protocol.  For the
remote protocol, GDB automatically does the remapping.  For the native
debugger you'll have to make sure the relevant mappings in the
*-linux-nat.c files are updated.