Re: [PATCH][PR python/17364] Cleanup registration of __gdb_builtin_type_bound128 pretty-printer

[Doug Evans <dje@google.com>]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Tedeschi, Walfred
<walfred.tedeschi@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> I have also submitted a patch for this last week. Though I was not creating a new directory for pretty printers.
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-09/msg00867.html
>
> I would like though to understand a bit more your comment on having x86 on the name of the register. What is the purpose of that?
> (I could change it in case)

Imagine a multi-arch gdb with several arches having bounds registers.
How do we distinguish them in the pretty-printer namespace?

> About registration of the pretty printer. We could do the following:
> 1. Register an event listener for new obj_files.
> 2. Query at every event the architecture of the  inferior. (In case we had an event new_inferior loaded it would be cheaper.)
> 3. In case of x86 or amd64 we can then register the pretty-printer for the bound registers.

We could do something like that for 7.9 alright.
At the moment it feels like a bit of overkill just for one pretty-printer.
And for 7.8.1 I want to do something simple.