RE: deprecated_register_convertible error on arm-elf target

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>]

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On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 05:52, LaPonsey Brian-ra4951 wrote:
> Yep, that fixed it...  Thanks
> Brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Seitz [mailto:keiths@redhat.com] 
> Sent: 21 April 2004 17:38
> To: LaPonsey Brian-ra4951
> Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: deprecated_register_convertible error on arm-elf target
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 09:29, LaPonsey Brian-ra4951 wrote:
> 
> > I can't reproduce this error in a gdb command-line window, it only 
> > occurs when I view the registers in the GUI.  It seems to be related to the commands that insight is sending to gdb in the background, but I don't know how to make that communication visible. Has anyone seen this before?
> 
> Not off-topic. I believe that there are register-handling problems with insight in 6.1 due to neglect.
> 
> There were some check-ins to gdbtk-register.c that might fix the
> problem:
> 
> 2004-03-29  Martin Hunt  <hunt@redhat.com>
> 
>         * generic/gdbtk-register.c (map_arg_registers): If a specific
>         register was requested, just return it without validating it
>         has a name.
>         (get_register): Check DEPRECATED_REGISTER_CONVERTIBLE_P ().
> 
> 2004-02-17  Martin Hunt  <hunt@redhat.com>
>  
>         * generic/gdbtk-register.c (Gdbtk_Register_Init): Replace
>         calls to register_gdbarch_swap with
>  	deprecated_register_gdbarch_swap.
> 
> Since you've built insight yourself, try grabbing src/gdb/gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-register.c from HEAD and replacing the version you have with it.
> 
> Keith