RE: [PATCH][PR python/17364] Cleanup registration of __gdb_builtin_type_bound128 pretty-printer

["Tedeschi, Walfred" <walfred dot tedeschi at intel dot com>]

Hello Doug,

I will prepare a patch as soon as I have some cycles.

Thanks and regards,
-Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Doug Evans
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 6:23 PM
To: Tedeschi, Walfred
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PR python/17364] Cleanup registration of __gdb_builtin_type_bound128 pretty-printer

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Tedeschi, Walfred <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> I have also submitted a patch for this last week. Though I was not creating a new directory for pretty printers.
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-09/msg00867.html
>
> I would like though to understand a bit more your comment on having x86 on the name of the register. What is the purpose of that?
> (I could change it in case)

Imagine a multi-arch gdb with several arches having bounds registers.
How do we distinguish them in the pretty-printer namespace?

> About registration of the pretty printer. We could do the following:
> 1. Register an event listener for new obj_files.
> 2. Query at every event the architecture of the  inferior. (In case we 
> had an event new_inferior loaded it would be cheaper.) 3. In case of x86 or amd64 we can then register the pretty-printer for the bound registers.

We could do something like that for 7.9 alright.
At the moment it feels like a bit of overkill just for one pretty-printer.
And for 7.8.1 I want to do something simple.
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