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Re: [patch] registers beginning with '$'
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:58:06 -0500
- Subject: Re: [patch] registers beginning with '$'
- References: <420B383D.1020406@codesourcery.com>
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:32:29AM +0000, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Hi,
> I had the misfortune to port to an architecture where register names
> all start with a '$' and the pc reg is '$PC'. This patch fixes expression
> printing of registers so that such names don't result in '$$name' being
> printed. It fixes register name lookup so that the leading '$' need not
> be specified (several places strip leading '$' on the name to be looked
> up). It also makes the register name lookup case insensitive.
>
> I also attach testsuite patches to allow $pc or $PC as the pc name.
>
> built and tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu, and an unreleased architecture, ok?
This one I'm less sure about. If you tell GDB the register names do
not contain '$', what output is wrong?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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