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Re: [doc] Remote protocol: undocumented return value for 'p' and 'g'


> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:13:08 +0000
> 
> It's intended usage is in the context of inspecting tracepoints, to
> report "the register exists, but I don't know its value, because I
> haven't collected it."
> 
> (We actually have a local series of 60 or so (and counting)
> trace debugging related patches that actually make use of
> this mechanism).
> 
> Okay to apply?

Yes, thanks.

> +literal @samp{x}'s in place of the register data digits, to indicate
> +the corresponding register has not been collected, thus its value is

"... to indicate that the corresponding register ..."

> +registers 0 and 2 have not been collected, while registers 1 and 3
> +have been collected, and have value zero each:
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"and both have zero value"


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