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Re: RFC: Patch to arm-tdep.c -- Register flavors
- To: rearnsha at arm dot com
- Subject: Re: RFC: Patch to arm-tdep.c -- Register flavors
- From: Scott Bambrough <scottb at netwinder dot org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:39:40 -0500
- CC: Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>, "fnasser at cygnus dot com" <fnasser at cygnus dot com>, GDB Patches Mail List <gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Rebel.com
- References: <200002161539.PAA12704@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>
> This is one of the few cases where I would just delete the old name. Old
> processors never had a specific flags register, so the 'ps' name was
> 'invented' by the original porter of gdb. Since then the cpsr name has
> come into use and I doubt that even users debugging in 26-bit mode would
> object violently to this name changing (maybe we can support "ps" as an
> alias when parsing user input, but I see no point in ever printing
> anything other than "cpsr".
This is ok by me. Nick? Fernando?
Scott
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