From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12276 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2003 02:18:20 -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 12268 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2003 02:18:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 2003 02:18:19 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D5C2B89; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:15:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F56A03E.5020106@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 02:18:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Hilfinger Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: Changes to allow extensions to operator set References: <20030901093941.0D2E9F2A64@nile.gnat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 > 4. I removed register declarations in routines I touched, just on > general principles. [I believe that all register declarations in > GDB and much other GNU software are anachronistic holdovers from > some bygone era. GCC ignores them, or so I'm told, except to > insure that & is not applied to register variables. Furthermore, > my impression is that many of these declarations would be > inappropriate even in non-optimizing compilers, since they often > seem to be used rather indiscriminantly in ways that are likely to > favor putting the wrong things into registers.] BTW, This is a separate but obvious (and tedious) change (you'll notice I occasionally expunge "register" from random files). Can you first up just expunge the "register" on the files you're interested in? Doing this keeps the cosmetic and functional changes separate. Oh, gdb.base/store.exp abuses "register" to create a few test senarios. enjoy, Andrew