Re: [RFC] New info command for win32 native target

Christopher Faylor
2002-02-06T18:00:16Z

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:22:55PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pierre Muller wrote:
>
>> This patch adds a new win32 native specific command:
>> "info sel"
>
>Thanks. A couple of comments:
>
> - this command needs to be documented in gdb.texinfo, similarly to
> "info dos ldt" and friends (and in the same chapter, but in a
> different subsection);

Agree.

> - since it's a Windows-specific command, I suggest to name it
> "info w32 sel" or "info windows sel" or maybe "info cygwin sel":
> something that will tell it's not available on every platform
> (actually, using ``seg'' instead of ``sel'' might probably be even
> better, since the information you show is about a segment whose
> selector is passed as an argument);

Agree. Probably w32 is a good choice since this could potentially work
on mingw.

> - I think it's a good idea to make the format used to print the segment
> as similar as possible to the one used by "info dos ..." commands;

Agree. If there is a similar command, it should certainly use it.

> - why do you only print CS, DS, and FS if no argument is given? why not
> all of the segment registers? I think at least SS and GS might be
> interesting
>
>Finally, will this work on non-x86 systems running MS-Windows (assuming
>Cygwin supports such systems)? The register names are x86-specific,
>right?

Cygwin only works on x86 system. That's not likely to change anytime soon.

cgf