Re: RFC: Patch to arm-tdep.c -- Register flavors

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Fernando Nasser wrote:
> >
> > ChageLog: This patch allows the user to choose between any of the
> > flavors available for the disassembly to be used in the "info reg"
> > command and elsewhere in gdb.  It prevents having to maintain this
> > information in two places by using the data kept in the opcodes
> > directory.
> 
> With regard to the argumet to set dissassembly-flavour et.al. commands,
> is there anything generic in either BFD or opcodes that can be used to
> determine the names?
> 
> The argument to ``set architecture'' is determined by BFD.  If an
> equivalent is available for this register/opcode stuff then I think
> there would be a greater chance of consistency between the different
> modules.
> 
That's the idea.  The proposed code does use opcodes as the source for
everything.  Even the help text is built from information gathered from
opcodes.  Gdb is now 100% consistent with whatever also uses the opcodes
unified code.


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