Registry Group

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Alexiev, Dobrin wrote:
> > I am working with the Eclipse C Development Tools community to add a
> > feature that will group registers in the Register View of Eclipse. 
> > 
> > Since embedded CPUs have lots of peripheral registers (50-100+) it is
> > getting a burden for the developer to keep scrolling the registry view
> > to find the right register. A grouping will make the user experience way
> > better. 
> > 
> > Since the IDE is relying on the GDB for most of the device information I
> > was wandering if there is a similar MI/GDB command to obtain the name of
> > the groups and their registers association. 
> > 
> > In our product we added such command "-data-list-register-groups". The
> > syntax of the command is: 
> > -data-list-register-groups
> > ^done,register-groups=[{name="r0",group="GRP1"},{name="r8",group="GRP2"}
> > ]
> 
> Sure! have you looked at the output from:
> 	(gdb) maint print register-groups
> as it should make a good starting point.
> 
> I suspect that the output should be more like:
> 	...{name="r0",groups=["grp1","grp2",...]},...
> (the MI syntax police will quickly point out the exact syntax :-).
> 

I think Alexiev is off to see Santa 'til January .. but
this is a not from a patch he dropped to the CDT mailing list
it should give you a rough idea of his way of thinking.
The part about a default "Main" group is probably CDT specific
and there for backward compatibility.

/**
 * Custom command for requesting the register groups.
 * It is not yet in the GDB stream.
 *
 * -data-list-register-groups
 *
 * The format of the command is:
 *              IN:(gdb)-data-list-register-groups
 *              OUT:^done,register-groups= [{name="r0", group="GRP1"},{name="r8",group="GRP2"}]
 *
 * It is similar of the command: "-data-list-register-values".
 *
 * The register group names are case sensitive.
 *  * The register groups appear in the Register View in order they are returns from
 * the command "-data-list-register-groups".
 *
 * The registers appear in the groups in the order they are returned from the
 * command "-data-list-register-names".
 * The register names are case sensitive.
 *
 * If the debugger doesn<92>t support the command "-data-list-register-groups" all
 * registers are added to the "Main" group.
 * If there is a register returned by the command "-data-list-register-names" but not
 * in the command "-data-list-register-groups" it is added to the "Main" group.
 * The main group itself is added first to the Register view.
 * If there is a register returned by the command "-data-list-register-groups" but not in
 * the command "-data-list-register-names" the register is ignored.
 */

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au revoir, alain