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Re: Example code: gdb pseudo-registers


Michael Meissner wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 07:20:02PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > Michael Snyder wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is an example of how you would use the pseudo-register feature.
> >
> > Good stuff!  It occurs to me that although this is primarily an
> > implementor's feature, we should probably say *something* in the
> > manual?  At the very least, user modification of a user-visible
> > register will cause other user-visible registers to magically
> > change, and we should document that this could happen, and that
> > the exact effects are arch-specific.
> 
> I suspect port maintainers might want to go through and add pseudo registers
> for things like condition code registers that are packed into a single special
> purpos register.  As a user, I would certainly welcome that.

That was another motivation for the work, yes.

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