Re: New method to get real length of register

[Tim Moore <timoore at redhat dot com>]

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Yao Qi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:00:08PM +0200, Tim Moore wrote:
>
> Register.get() could get the member length to do ptrace operations
> with kernel, although member length is not the real length of
> register, but it is the right length to kernel.
This shouldn't be necessary; PtraceByteBuffer "does the right thing"
with respect to short read and writes into the buffer that stores the
register values.

> 
> getLength() should return real length of register to tell the
> outsiders.
> 
> For x86 and x86-64, all the segment registers are different from
> others, so how about write a new class IA32SegmentRegister, which
> extends IA32Register(EMT64SegmentRegister extends EMT64Register),
> and override getLength() to return these real length.
> Condation or status register makes troubles on PPC64, so a new class,
> PPC64_32Register, could do the similar thing.

This is the approach I had in mind.

Tim

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