[RFA][PATCH v5 2/2] S/390: Add TDB regset

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:55:36 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:29:49 +0200
> >> 
> >> --- gdb.orig/gdb/NEWS
> >> +++ gdb/gdb/NEWS
> >> @@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ show range-stepping
> >>  * GDB now understands the element 'tvar' in the XML traceframe info.
> >>    It has the id of the collected trace state variables.
> >>  
> >> +* On S/390 targets that provide the transactional-execution feature,
> >> +  the program interruption transaction diagnostic block (TDB) is now
> >> +  represented as a number of additional "registers" in GDB.
> >
> > This part is OK, but the manual should cover this in more detail; I
> > see no reference to "TDB" in your patch for the manual.  So the reader
> > of this NEWS entry will be unable to find any details about this new
> > feature.
> >
> >> --- gdb.orig/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> >> +++ gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> >
> > This part is also OK, except for the above comment.
> 
> Good point.  Do you think the following small addition would be
> appropriate and sufficient?
> 
> 
> --- a/gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> +++ b/gdb/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> @@ -42683,7 +42683,9 @@
>  
>  The @samp{org.gnu.gdb.s390.tdb} feature is optional.  It should
>  contain the 64-bit registers @samp{tdb0}, @samp{tac}, @samp{tct},
> -@samp{atia}, and @samp{tr0} through @samp{tr15}.
> +@samp{atia}, and @samp{tr0} through @samp{tr15}.  These ``registers''
> +represent the appropriate fields in the program interruption
> +transaction diagnostic block (TDB).
>  
>  @node TIC6x Features
>  @subsection TMS320C6x Features

This is OK, but please also add index entries for TDB and "transaction
diagnostic block", so that readers could easily find this text.