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Re: ARM patch -- extra info about cpsr register


> Hi Richard,
> 
> Thanks for the submission.  However, we are using something else to show register bits nowadays.  It uses the
> REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE and we build a type for the register with bitfields so normal gdb processing (and the GUI) can
> show the bits and allow the user to set a specific bit by name (without having to know its position by heart).
> 
> I am sorting out some details and tracking down a bug in gdb before making it available.  My code is for another
> processor but it will be very easy to adapt it for ARM.  If you fell like helping, as soon as I have a final version I
> can point you to the right pieces of code.
> 
> Hope you are not too disappointed.

Not at all.  It's not the implementation that's important; it's that the 
information be decoded for the user.  Mapping a hex number to a set of 
mnemonics is something a computer is good and and a human is not.   If 
your version allows the user to set the register mnemonically as well, 
then all the better.

Please keep me posted on your patch.

R.



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