From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21878 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2002 16:38:06 -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 21828 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2002 16:38:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Jul 2002 16:38:05 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C28D3F2C; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:38:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D3C34EE.6050803@ges.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:38:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020708 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Jim Blandy , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: WIP: Register doco References: <3D38AF69.7020902@ges.redhat.com> <3D39954D.1020306@ges.redhat.com> <3D39CAD1.3060106@ges.redhat.com> <3D3AE41B.10201@ges.redhat.com> <20020721170446.GA30519@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00225.txt.bz2 > > "Typically" doesn't seem terribly useful... especially when debugging > through a monitor rather than ptrace. I just worked on a GDB port to > an architecture which does not do this (and let me tell you, it's > awkward to deal with in GDB. It will be much easier when some more of > your regcache work is finished.). The frame code had to figure out > where in the register file to find the registers for the current (or > any other) frame. Outch! BTW, typically == to the best of my knowledge all register windows targets (ignoring the m88k). Andrew