From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26601 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2010 21:57:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 26580 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Mar 2010 21:57:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com) (65.115.85.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:57:35 +0000 Received: from mailhost2.vmware.com (mailhost2.vmware.com [10.16.67.167]) by smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D231312A; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:57:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.20.125.19] (unknown [10.20.125.19]) by mailhost2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897998E5BE; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:57:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B8D89CD.5050700@vmware.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:57:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090609) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii , "H.J. Lu" , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers References: <20100301170152.GA20106@intel.com> <20100302135502.GB16596@caradoc.them.org> <6dc9ffc81003020608s10b76867kc04404a57df45df1@mail.gmail.com> <20100302150446.GB20342@caradoc.them.org> <838waa4nj1.fsf@gnu.org> <6dc9ffc81003021101yf91df69nddd08a824f777641@mail.gmail.com> <83y6ia30nc.fsf@gnu.org> <6dc9ffc81003021306s7cf79ef5n1069d8dcc994a3c6@mail.gmail.com> <83vdde2y6g.fsf@gnu.org> <20100302215235.GA3894@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20100302215235.GA3894@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00082.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:47:35PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Who can help out here? I can help with wording, if someone tells the >> story. > > Presumably H. J. knows why he wrote the patch? > > I presume it lets us say $ah or $ax in addition to $eax, and lets $eax > work on 64-bit systems where we really have $rax. Mmm hmm, and the context would be expressions or anywhere where a register name is appropriate (eg. info reg). Yes?