Re: RFC: Patch to arm-tdep.c -- Register flavors

[Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>]

Hi Scott,

: I think the default register names should be set by the port.  Most Linux users
: don't use the APCS/ATPCS register names.  I don't find them intuitive at all
: myself.

On the other hand, Cygnus customers have complained about the lack of
A{T}PCS compliant register naming schemes and this patch is part of
the work that was done to make them happy.

: Is the othernames command really necessary?  Perhaps we should take this
: opportunity to remove it.  I won't miss it.  It's just another command to
: document.

Documenting a command is not hard.  I suppoose the question the
question is really "is this feature necessary ?".  I would certainly
think that the ability to invoke target-specific commands from within
GDB would be useful (*) be they register renaming commands or
something else.

Cheers
	Nick

(*) Note - I am not a GDB power user, so for all I know GDB may
already have the ability to do this.