gdb/riscv: remove csr aliases created with DECLARE_CSR_ALIAS
In this commit:
commit
767a879e31ce31179e6135c2f991f670a35709fa
Date: Tue Jun 9 17:38:30 2020 +0100
gdb/riscv: Improved register alias name creation
RISC-V GDB was changed to make use of the DECLARE_CSR_ALIAS macro to
define register aliases for some CSRs. Actually, only one alias was
created 'dscratch' as an alias for 'dscratch0'. All of the other
DECLARE_CSR_ALIAS lines (from include/opcode/riscv-opc.h) were
filtered out.
In this commit:
commit
08ccfccf0ed825be9be2972594d4be4a2207ef13
Date: Mon Jun 8 10:54:53 2020 +0800
RISC-V: Support debug and float CSR as the unprivileged ones.
Changes were made to include/opcode/riscv-opc.h so that GDB no longer
created even the dscratch alias.
This caused a test failure in gdb.arch/riscv-tdesc-regs.exp.
In looking at how to address this failure I think that the best
strategy is, for now at least, to just remove the code that tries to
create aliases with DECLARE_CSR_ALIAS.
My thoughts are that:
1. At least some of the aliases are for CSRs where the register now
has a completely different use. Being able to reference the CSR
using a completely inappropriate name just seems confusing. This
was solved by the filtering added in the first commit referenced
above. But we certainly don't want to blindly add all aliases.
2. Names presented in a target description are always honoured, so
if a user has a legacy target then they should just start sending a
target description with their legacy register names in, this problem
is then solved.
3. It's easy enough to figure out which CSRs a target has with the
info registers command, so missing an alias shouldn't be a big
issue.
4. Allowing users to use names for registers that differ from the
names the target announces doesn't feel like a critical feature. If
in the future targets want multiple names for a register then maybe
we could/should extend target descriptions to allow the target to
send aliases as well as the primary name.... but that can wait for
another day.
So in this commit I remove the use of DECLARE_CSR_ALIAS, and remove
the test that was failing.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* riscv-tdep.c (riscv_create_csr_aliases): Remove use of
DECLARE_CSR_ALIAS.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.arch/riscv-tdesc-regs.exp: Remove unwanted test.