From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27114 invoked by alias); 26 Dec 2017 15:57:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 27097 invoked by uid 89); 26 Dec 2017 15:57:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1265 X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:57:25 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTrbT-0004NB-Pp for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2017 10:57:24 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54485) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTrbG-0004HB-7U; Tue, 26 Dec 2017 10:57:06 -0500 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3642 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eTrbF-0002oo-LB; Tue, 26 Dec 2017 10:57:06 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:57:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83608tiisk.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Stafford Horne CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, simon.marchi@polymtl.ca In-reply-to: <20171226134832.23497-5-shorne@gmail.com> (message from Stafford Horne on Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:48:32 +0900) Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] tdesc: handle arbitrary strings in tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20171226134832.23497-1-shorne@gmail.com> <20171226134832.23497-5-shorne@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00501.txt.bz2 > From: Stafford Horne > Cc: Simon Marchi , > Eli Zaretskii , > Stafford Horne > Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:48:32 +0900 > > tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p in now able to handle arbitrary > groups. This is useful when groups are created while the > target descriptor file is received from the remote. > > This can be the case of a soft core target processor where > registers/groups can change. > > gdb/ChangeLog: > > yyyy-mm-dd Franck Jullien > Stafford Horne > > * target-descriptions.c (tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p): Support > arbitrary strings. > * NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Announce that GDB supports > arbitrary reggroups. > > gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: > > yyyy-mm-dd Stafford Horne > > * gdb.xml/extra-regs.xml: Add example foo reggroup. > * gdb.xml/tdesc-regs.exp: Add test to check for foo reggroup. > > gdb/doc/ChangeLog: > > yyyy-mm-dd Stafford Horne > > * gdb.texinfo (Target Description Format): Explain that arbitrary > strings are now allowed for register groups. Thanks, the documentation parts are OK.