From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14598 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 2002 16:05:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14591 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2002 16:05:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Aug 2002 16:05:26 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2FB3E11; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:05:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D6A51C5.8050401@ges.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:31:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Buettner Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/wip] Save/restore cooked registers References: <3D692D27.4010003@ges.redhat.com> <1020826155511.ZM30766@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00849.txt.bz2 > On Aug 25, 3:16pm, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >> The attached is work-in-progress to get gdb saving just a subset of >> cooked registers when doing things like an inferior function call. > > > Why is it necessary to save the cooked registers during an inferior > function call? I would have thought that being able to save/restore > raw registers would be sufficient. > > (Or did I miss a thread which explains this?) See: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-08/msg00196.html Andrew