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diff --git a/gdb/regcache.h b/gdb/regcache.h index da91fd6..1db42e3 100644 --- a/gdb/regcache.h +++ b/gdb/regcache.h @@ -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. */ |