[PATCH] Teach -data-list-register-values to not include unavailable registers
Yao Qi
yao@codesourcery.com
Wed Jun 19 10:03:00 GMT 2013
On 06/18/2013 11:13 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Why a new argument rather than just having MI annotate unavailable
> registers directly?
>
> -data-list-register-values x 0 8
> ^done,register-values=[{number="0",unavailable="1"},{number="8",value="0x80483de"}]
>
The MI front-end doesn't parse the output like this, as each register is
represented by "number-value" pair.
> Is it not useful to see the unavailable ones?
Processor may have a large number of registers, and users are only
interested in collected or available registers in a traceframe. In this
case, it is not useful to show (a large of number of) unavailable registers.
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Yao (é½å°§)
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