From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion for gdb-ui.el
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:03:07 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17054.12443.347233.256554@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1117612957.16251.79.camel@localhost.localdomain>
> > > It would also be nice if the changed registers would be highlighted
> > > somehow (I noticed it's on the TODO list in gdb-ui.el).
> >
> > This shouldn't be too hard to do with the GDB/MI commands. I have other
> > changes that also use GDB/MI but I am waiting till after the release before
> > installing them in case such changes introduce bugs. How useful is this
> > feature?
...
> If you write hand-written inline assembly then it is very useful to see
> the registers while debugging. While doing calculations in assembly you
> often try to put as many variables as possible into registers and try
> not to load/store more than necessary to memory (because memory is
> slow).
>
> It can be helpful to see which registers have changed if you, for
> instance, ...
OK. You've convinced me. I'll try to make these changes. If not before the
pretest, then after the release.
Nick
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-01 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-31 10:13 Suggestion for gdb-ui.el Albert Veli
2005-05-31 21:40 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-01 8:02 ` Albert Veli
2005-06-01 22:03 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
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