From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Mark Kettenis Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA]: New function to supply only one x87 register Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:33:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A8D6335.1CD387AD@cygnus.com> References: <200102081828.NAA25559@indy.delorie.com> <200102091459.JAA00914@indy.delorie.com> <200102091655.f19GtFK06000@debye.wins.uva.nl> <200102101142.GAA07322@indy.delorie.com> <200102102259.f1AMxFW00244@delius.kettenis.local> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00294.html Mark Kettenis wrote: > I just posted a message to the discussion list on this subject. And > no, I don't thing that the target end should cache the registers, > since that would be duplicating what the existing register cache is > already capable of. I can see why the DJGPP port works the way it > does and caches the registers, but IMHO its way of handling things is > the exception to the way a UNIXoid OS handles this stuff. To follow up on my other e-mail. The method target->fetch_regisers(RAWNUM) is expected to at supply a value for at least REGNUM (or failing that, provide a dummy value and mark it as unavailable). enjoy, Andrew