Re: gdb/regformats

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> I was looking at this directory and wondering what it's used for.  I see
> that gdbserver uses the reg definitions but I didn't see if/how gdb does.

`A long term plan' is for remote.c to read them and, hence, allow 
run-time changes to the remote packet layout.

> The reason is that our OS stores its i386 general purpose registers in a
> different order than gdb does so in our tdep file we have to map them.  I
> was wondering if the regformats file might provide a more elegant way of
> doing it.

That mapping should be performed in the *-nat or *-remote file.

Andrew