Re: [patch] registers beginning with '$'

[Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:32:29AM +0000, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I had the misfortune to port to an architecture where register names
>>all start with a '$' and the pc reg is '$PC'.  This patch fixes expression
>>printing of registers so that such names don't result in '$$name' being
>>printed.  It fixes register name lookup so that the leading '$' need not
>>be specified (several places strip leading '$' on the name to be looked
>>up).  It also makes the register name lookup case insensitive.
>>
>>I also attach testsuite patches to allow $pc or $PC as the pc name.
>>
>>built and tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu, and an unreleased architecture, ok?
> 
> 
> This one I'm less sure about.  If you tell GDB the register names do
> not contain '$', what output is wrong?

The output from the 'info regs' command will then not have the '$'.

nathan

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