From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15144 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2010 21:47:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 15126 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Mar 2010 21:47:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:47:32 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KYO00K00CCRB300@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:47:26 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.54.31]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KYO00H4TCIYSM90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:47:23 +0200 (IST) Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:47:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers In-reply-to: <6dc9ffc81003021306s7cf79ef5n1069d8dcc994a3c6@mail.gmail.com> To: "H.J. Lu" Cc: dan@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83vdde2y6g.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT 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> 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/msg00080.txt.bz2 > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:06:20 -0800 > From: "H.J. Lu" > Cc: dan@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:01:42 -0800 > >> From: "H.J. Lu" > >> Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sourceware.org > >> > >> How about > >> > >> --- > >> * X86 general purpose registers > >> > >>   GDB now supports reading/writing byte, word and double word x86 > >>   general purpose registers directly. > >> --- > > > > Thanks, this is much better.  However, could we also tell what GDB > > features and/or commands would benefit from this support? > > > > I am not familiar with that part. I could use some help. Who can help out here? I can help with wording, if someone tells the story.