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

Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-06T11:24:01Z

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);

- 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);

- 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;

- 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?