gdb/gdb-bz578250-avx-05of10.patch

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2010-07-11 18:06:33 +00:00
[ Backported. ]
commit 6448aace637843e8e7c021d7f8c5d5d5fdd71974
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Mar 3 20:19:48 2010 +0000
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.
--- gdb-7.1-p3/gdb/NEWS 2010-03-18 22:01:55.000000000 +0100
+++ gdb-7.1/gdb/NEWS 2010-04-03 21:07:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -438,6 +438,14 @@ GDB will now correctly handle all of:
now support hardware watchpoints, and will use them automatically
as appropriate.
+* 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
GDB now has support for scripting using Python. Whether this is