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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] arc: Add arc-*-linux regformats
To: Shahab Vahedi <shahab.vahedi@gmail.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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On 2020-04-28 12:04 p.m., Shahab Vahedi via Gdb-patches wrote:
> From: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 2020-04-28  Anton Kolesov <anton.kolesov@synopsys.com>
> 
> 	* features/Makefile: Add new files and expedite registers.
> 	* regformats/arc-arcompact-Linux.dat: New file.
> 	* regformats/arc-v2-Linux.dat: Likewise.

Can you explain why this is useful?  I always forget, but I have the feeling
that regformats are something we are going away from, and that if you support
target descriptions, you don't need that... but I would need to refresh my
memory.

Simon