From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Zaretskii To: Nick Duffek Cc: kettenis@wins.uva.nl, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Register cache Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:26:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <200102112013.f1BKDpM11302@rtl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00118.html On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Nick Duffek wrote: > >Therefore I propose to make this "official" and change > >the comment on target_fetch_registers() to: > > > > /* Fetch at least register REGNO, or all regs if REGNO == -1. */ > > I think that's a great idea. > > >Another question is whether we should make this behaviour (I mean > >having target_fetch_registers() supply all registers it managed to get > >in one go) recommended practice. > > I don't agree with that. There are times when GDB just needs one > register, and it may be much more efficient on some targets to fetch one > register than to fetch all of them. So you are telling, in effect, that it's okay to have i387_supply_fsave get all the FP registers, and x86 targets which don't like that should provide ther own code instead of using i387_supply_fsave?