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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	       <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach -data-list-register-values to not include unavailable registers
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehbx2a71.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C18021.6080108@codesourcery.com> (Yao Qi's message of "Wed, 19	Jun 2013 17:55:45 +0800")

Yao> The MI front-end doesn't parse the output like this, as each register
Yao> is represented by "number-value" pair.

Fair enough.

Tom> Is it not useful to see the unavailable ones?

Yao> Processor may have a large number of registers, and users are only
Yao> interested in collected or available registers in a traceframe.  In
Yao> this case, it is not useful to show (a large of number of) unavailable
Yao> registers.

I suppose if anybody cares they can request the information twice.

The code bits are ok.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-19 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-07 12:53 Yao Qi
2013-06-07 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07 20:09   ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-07 20:40     ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-08  3:48     ` Yao Qi
2013-06-08  5:21       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-17 11:20       ` [ping]: " Yao Qi
2013-06-18 15:24       ` Tom Tromey
2013-06-19 10:03         ` Yao Qi
2013-06-19 19:07           ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-06-20  4:59             ` Yao Qi

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