Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] arc: Add arc-*-linux regformats

Simon Marchi
2020-05-14T15:12:57Z

On 2020-04-28 12:04 p.m., Shahab Vahedi via Gdb-patches wrote:
> From: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 2020-04-28 Anton Kolesov <anton.kolesov@synopsys.com>
>
> * features/Makefile: Add new files and expedite registers.
> * regformats/arc-arcompact-Linux.dat: New file.
> * regformats/arc-v2-Linux.dat: Likewise.

Can you explain why this is useful? I always forget, but I have the feeling
that regformats are something we are going away from, and that if you support
target descriptions, you don't need that... but I would need to refresh my
memory.

Simon