From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dc9ffc81003020737r55d4a4aasa5eb848e617e0684@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100302150446.GB20342@caradoc.them.org>
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:08:37AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 09:01:52AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> This patch supports 8bit, 16bit and 32bit x86 pseudo registers. OK
>> >> to install?
>> >
>> > IMO, this is useful enough for a NEWS entry.
>> >
>>
>> Like this?
>>
>> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
>> index 6cec32a..b29fa6c 100644
>> --- a/gdb/NEWS
>> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
>> @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
>>
>> *** Changes since GDB 7.1
>>
>> +* X86 pseudo registers
>> +
>> + GDB now supports 8bit, 16bit and 32bit x86 pseudo registers.
>> +
>> * Python scripting
>>
>> The GDB Python API now has access to symbols, symbol tables, and
>>
>
> That won't mean anything to users; they don't know what a pseudo
> register is. Does the architecture have a standard name for these
SDM mentions 8bit/byte, 16bit/word and 32bit/doubleword general
purpose registers.
> things? Partial registers or something like that?
>
"Partial registers" are too vague. We may not access upper bits directly.
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 17:02 H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 11:17 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-02 13:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-02 14:08 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 15:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-02 15:37 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2010-03-02 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-02 19:01 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 20:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-02 21:06 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 21:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-02 21:52 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-02 21:57 ` Michael Snyder
2010-03-02 22:00 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-02 22:07 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-03 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-03 17:53 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-03 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-03 20:20 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 4:23 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-12 5:32 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 6:07 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 18:22 ` Michael Snyder
2010-03-12 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 15:26 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-12 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 16:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-12 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 18:20 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-12 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 19:47 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 16:31 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-02 21:58 ` H.J. Lu
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