[PATCH 2/2] gdb/doc: describe x87 registers
Simon Marchi
simon.marchi@efficios.com
Fri Sep 8 17:16:07 GMT 2023
On 9/8/23 13:03, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 2023-09-08 16:20, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
>> While investigating this [1], I initially had no idea what register
>> "fioff" stood for, making it difficult to map it to something in the
>> Intel or AMD manuals. Similarly, I can imaging someone familiar with
>> x87 to want to print the "x87 last instruction address", and have no
>> clue that GDB makes it available as register "fioff". The names of the
>> x87 state fields don't seem to be standardized, they even change between
>> sections of the Intel manual (between the FSAVE, FXSAVE and XSAVE area
>> descriptions).
>>
>> Add some details to the doc to help one map GDB register names to x87
>> state fields.
>>
>
> Thanks for implementing this! Just one nit below:
>
>> +@subsubsection x87 registers
>> +
>> +GDB provides access to the x87 state through the following registers:
>
> GDB -> @value{GDBN}
>
Thanks, fixed and pushed.
Simon
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