From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13211 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2017 16:27:36 -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 12569 invoked by uid 89); 19 Dec 2017 16:27:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-25.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_0,GIT_PATCH_1,GIT_PATCH_2,GIT_PATCH_3,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= 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, 19 Dec 2017 16:27:35 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eRKjo-0003YZ-Tq for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:27:33 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34195) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eRKjh-0003Ri-TL; Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:27:21 -0500 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2204 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eRKjh-00028s-Bw; Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:27:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:27:00 -0000 Message-Id: <836092ptsa.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Stafford Horne CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, openrisc@lists.librecores.org In-reply-to: <20171219142257.13402-5-shorne@gmail.com> (message from Stafford Horne on Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:22:57 +0900) Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] tdesc: handle arbitrary strings in tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20171219142257.13402-1-shorne@gmail.com> <20171219142257.13402-5-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/msg00432.txt.bz2 > From: Stafford Horne > Cc: Openrisc , Stafford Horne > diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS > index 44f481d1f5..7d27262aee 100644 > --- a/gdb/NEWS > +++ b/gdb/NEWS > @@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ > > *** Changes since GDB 8.0 > > +* GDB now supports dynamically creating arbitrary register groups specified > + in XML target descriptions. This allows for finer grain grouping of > + registers on systems with a large amount of registers. > + > +* On Unix systems, GDBserver now does globbing expansion and variable > + substitution in inferior command line arguments. The second paragraph doesn't belong to this changeset, right? > @item group > -The register group to which this register belongs. It must > -be either @code{general}, @code{float}, or @code{vector}. If no > -@var{group} is specified, @value{GDBN} will not display the register > -in @code{info registers}. > +The register group to which this register belongs. It can be one of the > +standard register groups @code{general}, @code{float}, @code{vector} or an > +arbitrary string. The string should be limited to alphanumeric characters > +and internal hyphens. If no @var{group} is specified, @value{GDBN} will What do you mean by "internal hyphens"? Thanks.