From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31732 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2002 01:51:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31689 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2002 01:51:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2002 01:51:57 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17gyBZ-0004an-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:51:57 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17gyC7-0003Bw-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:52:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:51:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Kevin Buettner Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Register Groups (again) Message-ID: <20020820015231.GA12252@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kevin Buettner , Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <3D5EE0C6.7080902@ges.redhat.com> <20020818040145.GA26488@nevyn.them.org> <1020819185412.ZM21255@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1020819185412.ZM21255@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:54:12AM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote: > On Aug 18, 12:01am, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 07:48:22PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > See: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-02/msg00268.html for the > > > origins of this idea. > > > > > > I'd like to propose a new object ``struct reggroup'' and a number of > > > methods: > > > > Hmm, it seems more intuitive to me to have attributes for each > > register. Float, vector, system for the register's class or group, and > > then we could have other not necessarily mutually exclusive flags. > > Like, available in kernel or user mode. > > I think the attribute idea might be useful elsewhere, but for the > purposes of being easily able to specify a register group for ``info > registers'' (and other user interface uses), I think Andrew's > proposal was fine. I also agree. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer