[PATCH 3/5, doc RFA]: Enhancements to "flags": main patch
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
Thu Mar 3 20:53:00 GMT 2016
> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 18:46:32 +0000
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, cole945@gmail.com
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > > Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:07:09 +0000
> > > From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> > > Cc: cole945@gmail.com
> > >
> > > @cindex <struct>
> > > +@cindex <flags>
> > > If a register's value is composed from several separate values,
> define
> > > -it with a structure type. There are two forms of the @samp{<struct>}
> > > -element; a @samp{<struct>} element must either contain only bitfields
> > > -or contain no bitfields. If the structure contains only bitfields,
> > > -its total size in bytes must be specified, each bitfield must have an
> > > -explicit start and end, and bitfields are automatically assigned an
> > > -integer type. The field's @var{start} should be less than or
> > > -equal to its @var{end}, and zero represents the least significant bit.
> > > +it with either a structure type or a flags type.
> > > +A flags type may only contain bitfields.
> > > +A structure type may either contain only bitfields or contain no
> bitfields.
> > > +If the value contains only bitfields, its total size in bytes must be
> > > +specified.
> >
> > This drops some of the previous description. Is it no longer correct?
>
> The text has moved and been reorganized a bit, that's all.
It looked to me as if not all of the old text was elsewhere.
Apologies.
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