Re: WIP: Register doco

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:38:06PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >"Typically" doesn't seem terribly useful... especially when debugging
> >through a monitor rather than ptrace.  I just worked on a GDB port to
> >an architecture which does not do this (and let me tell you, it's
> >awkward to deal with in GDB.  It will be much easier when some more of
> >your regcache work is finished.).  The frame code had to figure out
> >where in the register file to find the registers for the current (or
> >any other) frame.
> 
> Outch!  BTW, typically == to the best of my knowledge all register 
> windows targets (ignoring the m88k).

The target I'm working with used to do this; but it was somewhat
undesirable from an architecture standpoint.  So we moved the support
into GDB.  If I had a better register cache (the port was done vs 5.2,
which was almost but not quite there), it would have been almost
painless.

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