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Re: Register Cache.
- To: Steven Johnson <sjohnson at neurizon dot net>
- Subject: Re: Register Cache.
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:42:34 -0500
- Cc: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>,Steven Johnson <sbjohnson at ozemail dot com dot au>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
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Steven Johnson wrote:
> I have gotten around the issues by invalidating the register cache
> between writes. This is obviously sub-optimal but it works OK.
Very sub-optimal. Being able to blat register_valid[] is going away :-)
> A better implementation would be to allow a setting on a register by
> register basis that sets how it will be cached by reg-cache. At the
> time of the original post, this was a fairly major undertaking.
> Regcache currently seems to be undergoing changes that will make
> implementing this easier but for the moment flushing works fine.
I hope it helps.
Andrew