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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:54:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
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> 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.