From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: "Anmol P. Paralkar" <b07584@freescale.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Question on power-core.xml, register: r1.
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080511213010.GC9153@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805091823590.22847@ld0159-tx32>
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:40:42PM -0500, Anmol P. Paralkar wrote:
> I note the use of the term: "may"; while power-core.xml marks 'pc' and 'lr'
> as type="code_ptr", it does not mark 'r1', the stack-pointer as
> type="data_ptr". Is there a specific reason why this is so?
No, there is no particular reason. Marking code_ptr is a user visible
improvement but marking data_ptr does not make much difference. In
some places the register will be displayed as hex once you change it
to be a pointer.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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