MI register groups

MI register groups

[Chris Genly]

I'm working on an Eclipse interface to a debugger produced by the
company I work for.  I notice Both GDB and Eclipse support the concept
of register groups.  But MI does not support the concept of register
groups.  I'd like to extend the MI spec to include register groups.
Who would I talk to about this?

RE: MI register groups

[Marc Khouzam]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org 
> [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Chris Genly
> Sent: June-15-09 2:10 PM
> To: gdb@sourceware.org
> Subject: MI register groups
> 
> I'm working on an Eclipse interface to a debugger produced by the
> company I work for.  I notice Both GDB and Eclipse support the concept
> of register groups.  But MI does not support the concept of register
> groups.  I'd like to extend the MI spec to include register groups.
> Who would I talk to about this?

Just for your knowledge, the Eclipse CDT integration of GDB does provide
register groups, but it seems to be done within eclipse.
I didn't work on it myself, but I found this comment:

 /**
  * For the GDB GDBMI implementation there is only on group. The GPR and FPU registers are grouped into 
  * one set. We are going to hard wire this set as the "General Registers".
  */

And then everything about register groups is being done without using MI or GDB.
If such an approach is sufficient for you, it would be much easier to get done.

Marc

Re: MI register groups

[Chris Genly]

Yes I saw that.  Thanks.  You are right that it would probably be
easier.  But I'd prefer to contribute to the Eclipse DSF project
rather than having to apply patches to my source every time a new DSF
is released.  I'm hoping in the long run defining register groups in
MI and providing patches to the DSF people will be less work.  We'll
see.  I may regret it. :-)

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Marc Khouzam<marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----

>  /**
>  * For the GDB GDBMI implementation there is only on group. The GPR and FPU registers are grouped into
>  * one set. We are going to hard wire this set as the "General Registers".
>  */
>
> And then everything about register groups is being done without using MI or GDB.
> If such an approach is sufficient for you, it would be much easier to get done.
>
> Marc
>

RE: MI register groups

[Marc Khouzam]

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Genly [mailto:chgenly@gmail.com] 
> Sent: June-15-09 2:41 PM
> To: Marc Khouzam
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: MI register groups
> 
> Yes I saw that.  Thanks.  You are right that it would 
> probably be easier.  But I'd prefer to contribute to the 
> Eclipse DSF project rather than having to apply patches to my 
> source every time a new DSF is released.  I'm hoping in the 
> long run defining register groups in MI and providing patches 
> to the DSF people will be less work.  We'll see.  I may regret it. :-)

That would be most welcome.
And I now realized that -your- debugger must support register groups.
I missed that on the first email, and thought you wanted to use GDB.

> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Marc Khouzam 
> <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	> -----Original Message-----
> 	> From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org
> 	> [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Chris Genly
> 	> Sent: June-15-09 2:10 PM
> 	> To: gdb@sourceware.org
> 	> Subject: MI register groups
> 	>
> 	> I'm working on an Eclipse interface to a debugger 
> produced by the
> 	> company I work for.  I notice Both GDB and Eclipse 
> support the concept
> 	> of register groups.  But MI does not support the 
> concept of register
> 	> groups.  I'd like to extend the MI spec to include 
> register groups.
> 	> Who would I talk to about this?
> 	
> 	
> 	Just for your knowledge, the Eclipse CDT integration of 
> GDB does provide
> 	register groups, but it seems to be done within eclipse.
> 	I didn't work on it myself, but I found this comment:
> 	
> 	 /**
> 	 * For the GDB GDBMI implementation there is only on 
> group. The GPR and FPU registers are grouped into
> 	 * one set. We are going to hard wire this set as the 
> "General Registers".
> 	 */
> 	
> 	And then everything about register groups is being done 
> without using MI or GDB.
> 	If such an approach is sufficient for you, it would be 
> much easier to get done.
> 	
> 	Marc
> 	
> 
> 
> 

Re: MI register groups

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:10:02AM -0700, Chris Genly wrote:
> I'm working on an Eclipse interface to a debugger produced by the
> company I work for.  I notice Both GDB and Eclipse support the concept
> of register groups.  But MI does not support the concept of register
> groups.  I'd like to extend the MI spec to include register groups.
> Who would I talk to about this?

This list is the right place.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Re: MI register groups

[Vladimir Prus]

Chris Genly wrote:

> I'm working on an Eclipse interface to a debugger produced by the
> company I work for.  I notice Both GDB and Eclipse support the concept
> of register groups.  But MI does not support the concept of register
> groups.  I'd like to extend the MI spec to include register groups.
> Who would I talk to about this?

Well, gdb-devel@. In practice, I am most likely to comment on any MI
proposals.

- Volodya

Re: MI register groups

[Chris Genly]

Oh a development list.  That sounds better.  I'll switch over.  I
didn't see that list when I went looking for it.  Here is where I
looked. http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/mailing-lists/


http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/mailing-lists/

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Vladimir Prus
<vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> Well, gdb-devel@. In practice, I am most likely to comment on any MI
> proposals.
>
> - Volodya
>
>

Re: MI register groups

[Vladimir Prus]

Chris Genly wrote:

> Oh a development list.  That sounds better.  I'll switch over.  I
> didn't see that list when I went looking for it.  Here is where I
> looked. http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/mailing-lists/

Hmm. *This* is gdb-devel. At least it goes by gmane.comp.gdb.devel
for me.

- Volodya

Re: MI register groups

[Chris Genly]

Ooops.  I misunderstood. So Daniel was right.  This is the place.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Vladimir
Prus<vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Hmm. *This* is gdb-devel. At least it goes by gmane.comp.gdb.devel
> for me.
>
> - Volodya

Re: MI register groups

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:21:42PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Chris Genly wrote:
> 
> > Oh a development list.  That sounds better.  I'll switch over.  I
> > didn't see that list when I went looking for it.  Here is where I
> > looked. http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/mailing-lists/
> 
> Hmm. *This* is gdb-devel. At least it goes by gmane.comp.gdb.devel
> for me.

Right... but the list is just gdb@sourceware.org :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery