[COMMIT PATCH] [TUI] Rewrite register-changed decision bits.

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

I stumbled on the TUI's register-changed decision code before (used to
decide whether the register should be highlighted in the register
window), for it is trying to compare all the different possible states
and contents or previous/current register contents, and as such may
need updating whenever the value machinery changes to have more state.
It's just much simpler and more future proof to compare the
previous/current printable representation instead.

The bit in tui_register_format that returns early if the register has
no name gets a bit in the way of the new prototype (what to return in
that case? NULL, empty string, etc.?).  Fortunately, that check isn't
really necessary.  All the callers will have already skipped unnamed
registers.

gdb/
2013-09-05  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* tui/tui-regs.c (tui_register_format): Don't look at the
	register's name here.  Return string representing register
	value instead of storing it in the data element.
	(tui_get_register): Compare register string representations
	instead of register value states and contents.
---
 gdb/tui/tui-regs.c |   55 ++++++++++++++--------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/tui/tui-regs.c b/gdb/tui/tui-regs.c
index b043a29..5ebf4c8 100644
--- a/gdb/tui/tui-regs.c
+++ b/gdb/tui/tui-regs.c
@@ -58,9 +58,6 @@ static enum tui_status tui_get_register (struct frame_info *frame,
 					 struct tui_data_element *data,
 					 int regnum, int *changedp);
 
-static void tui_register_format (struct frame_info *,
-				 struct tui_data_element*, int);
-
 static void tui_scroll_regs_forward_command (char *, int);
 static void tui_scroll_regs_backward_command (char *, int);
 
@@ -669,23 +666,18 @@ tui_restore_gdbout (void *ui)
   pagination_enabled = 1;
 }
 
-/* Get the register from the frame and make a printable representation
-   of it in the data element.  */
-static void
-tui_register_format (struct frame_info *frame,
-                     struct tui_data_element *data_element, 
-		     int regnum)
+/* Get the register from the frame and return a printable
+   representation of it.  */
+
+static char *
+tui_register_format (struct frame_info *frame, int regnum)
 {
   struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_frame_arch (frame);
   struct ui_file *stream;
   struct ui_file *old_stdout;
-  const char *name;
   struct cleanup *cleanups;
   char *p, *s;
-
-  name = gdbarch_register_name (gdbarch, regnum);
-  if (name == 0 || *name == '\0')
-    return;
+  char *ret;
 
   pagination_enabled = 0;
   old_stdout = gdb_stdout;
@@ -702,9 +694,10 @@ tui_register_format (struct frame_info *frame,
   if (s && s[1] == 0)
     *s = 0;
 
-  xfree (data_element->content);
-  data_element->content = xstrdup (p);
+  ret = xstrdup (p);
   do_cleanups (cleanups);
+
+  return ret;
 }
 
 /* Get the register value from the given frame and format it for the
@@ -721,33 +714,15 @@ tui_get_register (struct frame_info *frame,
     *changedp = FALSE;
   if (target_has_registers)
     {
-      struct value *old_val = data->value;
+      char *prev_content = data->content;
 
-      data->value = get_frame_register_value (frame, regnum);
-      release_value (data->value);
-      if (changedp)
-	{
-	  struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_frame_arch (frame);
-	  int size = register_size (gdbarch, regnum);
-
-	  /* We only know whether a value chunk is available if we've
-	     tried to read it.  */
-	  if (value_lazy (data->value))
-	    value_fetch_lazy (data->value);
-	  if (value_lazy (old_val))
-	    value_fetch_lazy (old_val);
-
-	  if (value_optimized_out (data->value) != value_optimized_out (old_val)
-	      || !value_available_contents_eq (data->value, 0,
-					       old_val, 0, size))
-	    *changedp = TRUE;
-	}
+      data->content = tui_register_format (frame, regnum);
 
-      value_free (old_val);
+      if (changedp != NULL
+	  && strcmp (prev_content, data->content) != 0)
+	*changedp = 1;
 
-      /* Reformat the data content if the value changed.  */
-      if (changedp == 0 || *changedp == TRUE)
-	tui_register_format (frame, data, regnum);
+      xfree (prev_content);
 
       ret = TUI_SUCCESS;
     }