ARM and virtual/raw registers

[Andrew Cagney]

> If, as I understand your previous postings to imply, having pseudo 
> registers stored in the cache is wrong, why does regcache_read() allow 
> them?
> 
> regcache_read (int rawnum, char *buf)
> {
>   gdb_assert (rawnum >= 0 && rawnum < (NUM_REGS + NUM_PSEUDO_REGS));

Lets just pretend you didn't see that :-)
Some existing mechanisms store pseudo-register values in the cache.  In 
addition ``NUM_REGS'' is overloaded - it controls too many aspects of 
GDB - num regs in G packet, num regs to save across an inferior function 
call, ...

Andrew