Re: [RFA] infcmd.c print vector registers in hex only

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at ges dot redhat dot com>]

> Elena Zannoni writes:
>  > 
>  > Doing this simplification allows to get rid of a function (for now,
>  > more later) in rs6000-tdep.c. Such function is entirely a duplicate of
>  > do_registers_info, except for this patch.
>  > 
>  > The reason behind this is that vector registers use up a lot of
>  > screen real estate, especially the 128 bit ones (altivec registers).
>  > 
>  > Elena
>  > 
> To clarify:
> With this patch each register is printed like this:
> (gdb) info reg vr0
> vr0            {uint128 = 0x00000000000000000000000000000000, v4_float = {0x0, 
>     0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, v4_int32 = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, v8_int16 = {0x0, 0x0, 
>     0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, v16_int8 = {0x0 <repeats 16 times>}}
>
> while w/o the patch:
> (gdb) info reg vr0
> vr0            {uint128 = 0x00000000000000000000000000000000, v4_float = {0x0, 
>     0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, v4_int32 = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, v8_int16 = {0x0, 0x0, 
>     0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, v16_int8 = {0x0 <repeats 16 times>}} {
>   uint128 = 0x00000000000000000000000000000000, v4_float = {0, 0, 0, 0}, 
>   v4_int32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}, v8_int16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, 
>   v16_int8 = '\0' <repeats 15 times>}
Er, yes.  The old style just looks silly :-)


>  > +	  /* Print the register in hex.  */
>  >  	  val_print (REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE (i), virtual_buffer, 0, 0,
>  >  		     gdb_stdout, 'x', 1, 0, Val_pretty_default);
>  > -	  printf_filtered ("\t");
>  > -	  val_print (REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE (i), virtual_buffer, 0, 0,
>  > -		     gdb_stdout, 0, 1, 0, Val_pretty_default);
>  > +          /* If not a vector register, print it also in decimal.  */
>  > +	  if (TYPE_VECTOR (REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE (i)) == 0)
>  > +	    {
>  > +	      printf_filtered ("\t");
>  > +	      val_print (REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE (i), virtual_buffer, 0, 0,
>  > +			 gdb_stdout, 0, 1, 0, Val_pretty_default);
>  > +	    }
The (old) comment should probably, also, be fixed.  That isn't printing 
the value in decimal.

enjoy,
Andrew