memory region attribute CLI

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Fri Mar 24 22:43:00 GMT 2000


"J.T. Conklin" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> Andrew> Looking at it further, have you considered including
> Andrew> architectural information (arch, endian, ...?) in the
> Andrew> attributes?  There are a number of operations that I suspect
> Andrew> would benefit from it - breakpoints and dissassembly.  As a
> Andrew> real example, ever tried to debug the PPC's endian-switching
> Andrew> code?
> 
> No, I hadn't thought of any of those, although my intention is not to
> preclude any useful attributes being added.  I don't want to bite off
> too much at the start though --- all I was asked to do was to support
> n-bit reads and writes, but I wanted to put in place a complete frame-
> work rather than yet another hack.

Sounds good.  I've lots of other gdbarch stuff to do before worrying
about that.

	Andrew


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