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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [gdb/doc] aarch64: Expand documentation of XML features
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:06:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ttzcpgjc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1684a0e-d426-19d6-ddb7-3386811f3261@arm.com> (message from Luis Machado on Thu, 23 Feb 2023 13:33:08 +0000)

> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 13:33:08 +0000
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
> 
> On 2/23/23 11:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> >> +The @samp{cpsr} flags type gets updated based on new architectural
> >> +features.
> > 
> > "flags type gets updated" sounds awkward and confusing.  What did you
> > mean by that? what is updated?
> > 
> 
> Some flags/fields are reserved to be used in future extensions of the architecture.
> 
> For example, suppose bit 26 in 32-bit register is undefined, but then gets defined for a new
> architecture extension. We need to update the XML to reflect that.

Then I suggest something like

  The semantics of the individual flags in @samp{cpsr} can change as
  new architectural features are added.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-23 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-23  9:52 Luis Machado
2023-02-23 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-23 13:33   ` Luis Machado
2023-02-23 15:06     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-02-24 18:41 ` [PATCH, v2] " Luis Machado
2023-02-24 19:25   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 11:32     ` Luis Machado

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