patch for printing 64-bit values in i386 registers; STABS format

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Mon Apr 28 17:30:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:09:53PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> >   It's possible to fix this without adding an architecture method, or 
> >   implementing location expressions (the penny just dropped).  The basic 
> >   problem is the same as for the MIPS - need a custom register area.  
> >   Hence:
> >
> >   - define a sequence of nameless cooked ([NUM_REGS .. 
> >   NUM_REGS+NUM_PSEUDO_REGS) range) registers ordered the way stabs would 
> >   like them
> >   - modify the existing stabs_regnum_to_regnum to map the messed up 
> >   registers onto those values
> >
> >Ugh, Yuck!  Yes it works, but isn't this a terrible hack?  Oh and
> >using nameless cooked registers means that
> >
> >   info address variable
> >
> >no longer prints the right thing if variable lives in a register.
> 
> Hmm, so that's the command I can never remember.  Fortunatly, I think 
> the `unnamed' restriction is removed.  They can be named as GDB should 
> now be relying on reggroups to determine which registers are valid where.

Nowadays print &variable will do it also.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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