[patch/wip] i386 register groups

Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
Mon Aug 26 13:55:00 GMT 2002


On Aug 26,  3:42pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Just to prove its possible :-)  The attached adds reggroups.[hc] (is 
> reggroup.[ch] a better name?) and then uses it in the i386.  It 
> certainly helps.  The new output looks like:
> 
> (gdb) info registers
> eax            0xbffff824       -1073743836
> ecx            0x0      0
[...]
> orig_eax       0xffffffff       -1
> 
> (ignoring orig_eax :-) while the [very] old output looks like:

Any opinion on what should be done about orig_eax?  I.e, does it really
belong in the "info registers" list?

[...]
> So I think its an improvement.

Yes, I agree.

Kevin



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