MI register groups
Marc Khouzam
marc.khouzam@ericsson.com
Mon Jun 15 18:44:00 GMT 2009
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Genly [mailto:chgenly@gmail.com]
> Sent: June-15-09 2:41 PM
> To: Marc Khouzam
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: MI register groups
>
> Yes I saw that. Thanks. You are right that it would
> probably be easier. But I'd prefer to contribute to the
> Eclipse DSF project rather than having to apply patches to my
> source every time a new DSF is released. I'm hoping in the
> long run defining register groups in MI and providing patches
> to the DSF people will be less work. We'll see. I may regret it. :-)
That would be most welcome.
And I now realized that -your- debugger must support register groups.
I missed that on the first email, and thought you wanted to use GDB.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Marc Khouzam
> <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org
> > [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Chris Genly
> > Sent: June-15-09 2:10 PM
> > To: gdb@sourceware.org
> > Subject: MI register groups
> >
> > I'm working on an Eclipse interface to a debugger
> produced by the
> > company I work for. I notice Both GDB and Eclipse
> support the concept
> > of register groups. But MI does not support the
> concept of register
> > groups. I'd like to extend the MI spec to include
> register groups.
> > Who would I talk to about this?
>
>
> Just for your knowledge, the Eclipse CDT integration of
> GDB does provide
> register groups, but it seems to be done within eclipse.
> I didn't work on it myself, but I found this comment:
>
> /**
> * For the GDB GDBMI implementation there is only on
> group. The GPR and FPU registers are grouped into
> * one set. We are going to hard wire this set as the
> "General Registers".
> */
>
> And then everything about register groups is being done
> without using MI or GDB.
> If such an approach is sufficient for you, it would be
> much easier to get done.
>
> Marc
>
>
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