Re: variable objects and registers

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:20:47PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> I was working on implementing a new MI command that creates variable objects 
> for registers, and I have something working good enough to discuss. This 
> patch lacks docs, but I wanted to make sure the interface is fine with 
> everybody before documenting it.

No one else had any comments, and it looks fine to me.  The patch looks
OK too.  It'll want a testcase, naturally.

> As soon as we add the code to display memory-mapped registers, there will be a 
> problem that existing frontends might wish to show the memory-mapped 
> registers, but not wish (at the moment) to modify the code for displaying 
> regular registers. I plan to address this by either adding new 
> attribute "register-kind" to the output, that can be either "core" 
> or "memory-mapped", or by adding an option to -var-registers that says what 
> registers to show. But that's for future.

Or a different command to return just those?  I'm not sure they should
be part of -var-registers; clients probably expect "registers" to be
"the things that should go in a registers view", which won't include
most MMIO registers.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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