Re: [patch] mips-tdep: info registers

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:50:30PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > They should be aliases for the normal registers, e.g. $1 and $at
> > should mean the same thing.
> 
> I have never implemented something like this before. How would you
> do it? I see that mips-tdep.c already has some table of register
> name aliases. This doesn't look like it can be connected to
> the "info registers" command, because of the way this command
> is implemented (it iterates over all register numbers, gets their
> associated names, and compares with the name used by the user).
> As far as I can tell, the only way that I can see is by adding
> a new series of pseudo-registers.

Or change how info registers works, perhaps.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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