Language of registers

[Nick Roberts]

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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