From 8685c86ff08c67f4c32698954da9311a8b2acde3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H.J. Lu" Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:19:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention improvement for X86 general purpose registers. 2010-03-03 H.J. Lu Eli Zaretskii * NEWS: Add X86 general purpose registers section. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gdb/NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 269f118e53..b78e7b0249 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2010-03-03 H.J. Lu + Eli Zaretskii + + * NEWS: Add X86 general purpose registers section. + 2010-03-03 Tom Tromey PR mi/11098: diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index 6cec32a62c..e8c1935abb 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ *** Changes since GDB 7.1 +* 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 The GDB Python API now has access to symbols, symbol tables, and