Re: DDD 3.3.11 for beginners in assembly programming

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: DDD 3.3.11 for beginners in assembly programming, R....:

> Some comments on what I found.
>
> 1. The styles regs.vsl, flags.vsl which for dealing with those Intel
>   x86 registers and Intel register flags I think should be renamed
>   something more Intel x86 suggestive, like i386regs.vsl and
>   i386flags.vsl.
>
> 2. Those two styles are loaded by default. A first cut at doing better
>   would be to test to see if the gdb debugger is used. This is done
>   by using by comparing gdb->type() to GDB, e.g. gdb->type() ==
>   GDB. Even better would be to issue the gdb command "show
>   architecture" and look for i386.
>
>   Another approach that I think would work just as well would be to
>   install the profile as part of your Ddd X resources file.  It looks
>   like the resources
>   Ddd*vslLibrary: i386.vsl
>
>   where i386.vsl is just:
>     #include "i386regs.vsl"
>     #include "i386flags.vsl"
>
>   In fact, one might want to have a i586.vsl or i686.vsl which uses
>   some of the i386 definitions. So I suggest that when this goes into
>   ddd (and I think it should), this may be a better organization.

I would agree wholeheartedly with these comments.  I think all the changes
that have been mentioned are good ones, as long as they don't break 
ddd on non-x86 platforms or for non-gdb debuggers.

Tim
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