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To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa:i386] Eliminate register_byte() and register_raw_size()
References: <3D5477D2.6090403@ges.redhat.com> <3D547D35.6050003@ges.redhat.com>
From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:41:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney's message of "Fri, 09 Aug 2002 22:40:53 -0400"
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Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com> writes:

> > This patch eliminates the register_byte() and register_raw_size()
> > architecture methods from the i386.
> >
> > (It was either that or modify the code so that it included MMX
> >  registers :-)

Well, the generic code is probably a wee bit slower...

...but we can always add back a more generic version of the "offset caching" code that your patch removes if that turns out to be a problem...

> > ok to commit?

...so it's fine with me.  Please go ahead.

Mark