From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20927 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2003 15:45:01 -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 20904 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2003 15:44:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO TheWorld.com) (199.172.62.106) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2003 15:44:59 -0000 Received: from shell.TheWorld.com (root@shell01.TheWorld.com [199.172.62.241]) by TheWorld.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3BFiqlV021937; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:44:53 -0400 Received: from localhost (qqi@localhost) by shell.TheWorld.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA9251005; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:44:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell01.TheWorld.com: qqi owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:45:00 -0000 From: Quality Quorum To: Kris Warkentin cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb/regformats In-Reply-To: <03ca01c3003b$f334a550$0202040a@catdog> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Kris Warkentin wrote: > I was looking at this directory and wondering what it's used for. I see > that gdbserver uses the reg definitions but I didn't see if/how gdb does. > > The reason is that our OS stores its i386 general purpose registers in a > different order than gdb does so in our tdep file we have to map them. What is wrong with converting from your format to gdb format in the stub? > I was wondering if the regformats file might provide a more elegant way of > doing it. > > cheers, > > Kris > Thanks, Aleksey