Re: [PATCH 2/2] gdb/doc: describe x87 registers

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>]

On 9/8/23 13:03, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 2023-09-08 16:20, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
>> While investigating this [1], I initially had no idea what register
>> "fioff" stood for, making it difficult to map it to something in the
>> Intel or AMD manuals.  Similarly, I can imaging someone familiar with
>> x87 to want to print the "x87 last instruction address", and have no
>> clue that GDB makes it available as register "fioff".  The names of the
>> x87 state fields don't seem to be standardized, they even change between
>> sections of the Intel manual (between the FSAVE, FXSAVE and XSAVE area
>> descriptions).
>>
>> Add some details to the doc to help one map GDB register names to x87
>> state fields.
>>
> 
> Thanks for implementing this!  Just one nit below:
> 
>> +@subsubsection x87 registers
>> +
>> +GDB provides access to the x87 state through the following registers:
> 
> GDB -> @value{GDBN}
> 

Thanks, fixed and pushed.

Simon