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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] tdesc: handle arbitrary strings in tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <836092ptsa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171219142257.13402-5-shorne@gmail.com> (message from Stafford	Horne on Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:22:57 +0900)

> From: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
> Cc: Openrisc <openrisc@lists.librecores.org>,	Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index 44f481d1f5..7d27262aee 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
>  
>  *** Changes since GDB 8.0
>  
> +* GDB now supports dynamically creating arbitrary register groups specified
> +  in XML target descriptions.  This allows for finer grain grouping of
> +  registers on systems with a large amount of registers.
> +
> +* On Unix systems, GDBserver now does globbing expansion and variable
> +  substitution in inferior command line arguments.

The second paragraph doesn't belong to this changeset, right?

>  @item group
> -The register group to which this register belongs.  It must
> -be either @code{general}, @code{float}, or @code{vector}.  If no
> -@var{group} is specified, @value{GDBN} will not display the register
> -in @code{info registers}.
> +The register group to which this register belongs.  It can be one of the
> +standard register groups @code{general}, @code{float}, @code{vector} or an
> +arbitrary string.  The string should be limited to alphanumeric characters
> +and internal hyphens.  If no @var{group} is specified, @value{GDBN} will

What do you mean by "internal hyphens"?

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-19 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-19 14:23 [PATCH v3 0/4] Support for arbitrary reggroups Stafford Horne
2017-12-19 14:23 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] reggroups: Add test and docs for `info reg $reggroup` feature Stafford Horne
2017-12-19 16:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-20 10:40     ` Stafford Horne
2017-12-21  2:40     ` Simon Marchi
2017-12-21  3:40       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-21  2:59   ` Simon Marchi
2017-12-24 14:47     ` Stafford Horne
2017-12-19 14:23 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] tdesc: handle arbitrary strings in tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p Stafford Horne
2017-12-19 16:27   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-19 22:13     ` Stafford Horne
2017-12-20 13:35       ` Stafford Horne
2017-12-20 16:37       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-21  3:29   ` Simon Marchi
2017-12-21 12:55     ` Stafford Horne
2017-12-19 14:23 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] reggroups: Convert reggroups from post_init to pre_init Stafford Horne
2017-12-21  3:03   ` Simon Marchi
2017-12-19 14:23 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] reggroups: Create reggroup_gdbarch_new for dynamic reggroups Stafford Horne
2017-12-21  3:15   ` Simon Marchi

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