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Re: Language of registers
Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:49:57AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > > When using variable objects, the frontend already has the
> > > parsing/display code.
> >
> > What would your variable object print for xmm1?
>
> Instead of a big string, it could have a triangle to expand xmm1,
> display it as uint32_t[4] and uint8_t[16] on different lines... just
> like we do for structures, right?
OK, I see now. I'm not familiar with these large registers (just the ones that
hold one value!). I was just thinking that maybe variable objects are `heavy
armour' for registers and that it might be simpler to change the output format
of the -data-list-* commands instead.
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Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob