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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/regcache.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/regcache.h | 29 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/regcache.h b/gdb/regcache.h index 400ba85..ad70298 100644 --- a/gdb/regcache.h +++ b/gdb/regcache.h @@ -94,29 +94,14 @@ 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. */ + FIXME: cagney/2002-11-07: The get_saved_register() function, when + specifying the real location of a register, does so using that + registers offset in the register cache. That offset is then used + by valops.c to determine the location of the register. The code + should instead use the register's number and a location expression + to describe a value spread across multiple registers or memory. */ 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 @@ -201,8 +186,6 @@ extern int register_cached (int regnum); extern void set_register_cached (int regnum, int state); -extern void register_changed (int regnum); - extern void registers_changed (void); |