Re: [cdt-dev] Implementation of IRegisters service in DSF/GDB

[Mikhail Khodjaiants <mikhailkhod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Pawel. I'll submit a patch.

On 18/06/2010 11:27 AM, Pawel Piech wrote:
> The registers service was one of the first services we implemented 
> (along with run control and stack).  As we wrote it we were designing 
> the command cache and other DSF utilities at the same time, so in a 
> lot of ways it was a tool for experimentation.
>
> We didn't attempt to use GDB variables because tracking them adds a 
> lot of complexity on the client side (MIVariableManager is 2k LOC).  
> Now that the expression service is fully functional it would make a 
> lot of sense to re-write it so use the expressions service.
>
> Cheers,
> Pawel
>
> On 06/17/2010 07:19 PM, Mikhail Khodjaiants wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been looking at the implementation of IRegisters service in 
> > DSF/GDB and see the following issues:
> > 1. members of aggregate types (unions and structures) can not be 
> > viewed separately and as a result their values can not be modified
> > 2. types of some registers are not displayed correctly
> > I am trying to understand why such a useful feature of GDB/MI as 
> > variable objects isn't used in this case as it is for the variables 
> > and expressions. I discussed this with Marc, but didn't get the 
> > answer. Maybe someone from WindRiver can shed a light.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mikhail
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