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commit 6448aace637843e8e7c021d7f8c5d5d5fdd71974
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Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed Mar 3 20:19:48 2010 +0000
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Mention improvement for X86 general purpose registers.
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2010-03-03 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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* NEWS: Add X86 general purpose registers section.
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--- gdb-7.1-p3/gdb/NEWS 2010-03-18 22:01:55.000000000 +0100
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+++ gdb-7.1/gdb/NEWS 2010-04-03 21:07:46.000000000 +0200
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@@ -438,6 +438,14 @@ GDB will now correctly handle all of:
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now support hardware watchpoints, and will use them automatically
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as appropriate.
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+* X86 general purpose registers
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+ GDB now supports reading/writing byte, word and double-word x86
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+ general purpose registers directly. This means you can use, say,
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+ $ah or $ax to refer, respectively, to the byte register AH and
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+ 16-bit word register AX that are actually portions of the 32-bit
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+ register EAX or 64-bit register RAX.
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* Python scripting
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GDB now has support for scripting using Python. Whether this is
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