Re: Register types

[Larry Smith <larry at smith-house dot org>]

Fernando Nasser wrote:

> > > Any particular reason for the question?

> > Working on a bug report requesting that floating point
> > registers default to decimal rather than hex.

> No, they should default to "natural".  I think they do unless you have something
> on the contrary on your preferences file. If the original default for registers is
> not "natural" anymore it must be changed back.

In "RegWin::init_reg_display_vars." there is this:

    # All registers shall be considered editable
    # and non-typed until proved otherwise
    set reg_display($rn,typed) 0
    set reg_display($rn,editable) 0

    # If user has no preference, show register in hex (if we can)
    set format [pref getd gdb/reg/$name-format]
    if {$format == ""} { set format x }
    set reg_display($rn,format) $format

This appears to force all regs to display in hex
unless told otherwise.

> GDB will "print" them for us in the right format.  We don't want to mess with
> types and languages specific in the Insight code.

I tend to agree, I think natural should be adequate.

> That sounds like an user error.  There must be entries in their preferences file.

I don't think so based on the code above.

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