[PATCH, RFC] Add support for choosing disassembler cpu in GDB for POWER.

Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
Sat Oct 8 14:39:00 GMT 2016


Peter Bergner wrote:

> >> +  gdb_disassembler_cpu = strdup (PPC_DEFAULT_CPU",any");
> > 
> > Why do we have to know about this here in GDB?  Can't the GDB default just
> > be the empty (or NULL) string, and then opcodes does the defaulting
> > (as it does today)?
> 
> I thought it would be useful if the user does a "show powerpc disassembler"
> without ever doing a "set powerpc disassembler <cpu>" to show them what
> default cpu they're actually using.  If you want this hunk removed, I
> can spit out 'default' in the case gdb_disassembler_cpu is NULL.

Yes, I think this would be better.

Thanks,
Ulrich

-- 
  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU/Linux compilers and toolchain
  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com



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