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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2010-03-03 20:19:50 +0000
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2010-03-03 20:19:50 +0000
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Mention improvement for X86 general purpose registers.
2010-03-03 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> * NEWS: Add X86 general purpose registers section.
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+2010-03-03 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+ Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * NEWS: Add X86 general purpose registers section.
+
2010-03-03 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
PR mi/11098:
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*** Changes since GDB 7.1
+* X86 general purpose registers
+
+ GDB now supports reading/writing byte, word and double-word x86
+ general purpose registers directly. This means you can use, say,
+ $ah or $ax to refer, respectively, to the byte register AH and
+ 16-bit word register AX that are actually portions of the 32-bit
+ register EAX or 64-bit register RAX.
+
* Python scripting
The GDB Python API now has access to symbols, symbol tables, and