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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dc9ffc81003021101yf91df69nddd08a824f777641@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838waa4nj1.fsf@gnu.org>

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:04:46 -0500
>> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
>> Cc: GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>> > > 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.
>
> I agree.  We should try to explain more.
>

How about

---
* X86 general purpose registers

  GDB now supports reading/writing byte, word and double word x86
  general purpose registers directly.
---

-- 
H.J.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-02 19:01 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
2010-03-02 17:54       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-02 19:01         ` H.J. Lu [this message]
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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