From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Insight List <insight@sourceware.cygnus.com> 
Subject: assembly display -vs- popups
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:46:00 -0000
Message-id: <87bt38h5kp.fsf@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00092.html

While debugging my gcj-generated stubs I always use the assembly view,
because there isn't any source corresponding to the code I'm
debugging.

In assembly mode I see code like this (on my x86 box):

-	0x403077ca	<simple_int.nat(int)+42>:		mov    %eax,0xfffffff8(%ebp)

If I highlight "%ebp", I'd like it to display the value of the
register in the balloon.  Unfortunately, it does not, because "%ebp"
is not valid gdb syntax for getting the register value.

A hack would be to do `s/%/$/' to the expression in assembly mode.

This is bad because ideally I'd like to be able to highlight
0xfffffff8(%ebp) and have it do the right thing.  Maybe assembly needs
a different expression evaluator, making this a more general gdb
problem?

Tom