On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Yodel Eldar <yodel.eldar@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Yodel Eldar <yodel.eldar@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 10:12:18 -0500
> >
> > This commit adds target description support for Alpha.
> >
> > The target description obviates the alpha_register_type and
> > alpha_register_name functions in alpha-tdep.c. Removal of
> > alpha_register_reggroup_p was considered but ultimately abandoned,
> > because the "info regs" command would no longer omit the zero, fpcr, and
> > unique registers from its output (they are neither vector nor float
> > types).
> >
> > Register types in the target description annex match the types that the
> > alpha_register_type function returned.
> >
> > The locally defined register_names array was moved out of
> > alpha_register_name and renamed to alpha_register_names as a static
> > global; calls to alpha_register_name have been replaced with direct
> > access of the array.
> >
> > The patch follows the code pattern outlined in the following GDB
> > Internals Wiki entry:
> >
> >
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Adding-Target-Described-Register-Support
> > ---
> >  gdb/NEWS                    |  2 +
> >  gdb/alpha-tdep.c            | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo         | 42 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  gdb/features/Makefile       |  1 +
> >  gdb/features/alpha-core.xml | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  gdb/features/alpha.c        | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  gdb/features/alpha.xml      | 11 +++++
> >  7 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 gdb/features/alpha-core.xml
> >  create mode 100644 gdb/features/alpha.c
> >  create mode 100644 gdb/features/alpha.xml
>
> Thanks.
>
> > diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> > index 2e48a00df5a..099c137a16f 100644
> > --- a/gdb/NEWS
> > +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> > @@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ qXfer:threads:read
> >    subsystem to be disabled at configure time, in the form of
> >    --disable-gdb-compile.
> >
> > +* The Alpha target now supports target descriptions.
> > +
> >  *** Changes in GDB 16
>
> This part is okay.
>
> > +The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.alpha.core} feature is required for Alpha
> targets. It
>
> ^^
> Two spaces between sentences, please.
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. It's corrected now.

> Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>