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@@ -88,6 +88,58 @@ extern void supply_register (int regnum, const void *val);
extern void regcache_collect (int regnum, void *buf);
+/* The register's ``offset''.
+
+ NOTE: cagney/2002-08-17: The ``struct value'' and expression
+ evaluator treat the register cache as a large liner buffer.
+ Instead of reading/writing a register using its register number,
+ the code read/writes registers by specifying their offset into the
+ buffer and a number of bytes. The code also assumes that these
+ byte read/writes can cross register boundaries, adjacent registers
+ treated as a contiguous set of bytes.
+
+ The below map that model onto the real register cache. New code
+ should go out of their way to avoid using these interfaces.
+
+ FIXME: cagney/2002-08-17: The ``struct value'' and expression
+ evaluator should be fixed. Instead of using the { offset, length }
+ pair to describe a value within one or more registers, the code
+ should use a chain of { regnum, offset, len } tripples. */
+
+extern int register_offset_hack (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);
+extern void regcache_cooked_read_using_offset_hack (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int offset, int len,
+ void *buf);
+extern void regcache_cooked_write_using_offset_hack (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int offset, int len,
+ const void *buf);
+
+
+/* The type of a register. This function is slightly more efficient
+ then its gdbarch vector counterpart since it returns a precomputed
+ value stored in a table.
+
+ NOTE: cagney/2002-08-17: The original macro was called
+ REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE. This was because the register could have
+ different raw and cooked (nee virtual) representations. The
+ CONVERTABLE methods being used to convert between the two
+ representations. Current code does not do this. Instead, the
+ first [0..NUM_REGS) registers are 1:1 raw:cooked, and the type
+ exactly describes the register's representation. Consequently, the
+ ``virtual'' has been dropped.
+
+ FIXME: cagney/2002-08-17: A number of architectures, including the
+ MIPS, are currently broken in this regard. */
+
+extern struct type *register_type (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);
+
+
+/* Return the size of the largest register. Used when allocating
+ space for an aribtrary register value. */
+
+extern int max_register_size (struct gdbarch *gdbarch);
+
+
/* DEPRECATED: Character array containing an image of the inferior
programs' registers for the most recently referenced thread. */