2002-02-04 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>

        * regformats/regdef.h (struct reg): Add comment describing the
        requirements for offset and size fields.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index fc78e5448134fb8275a6efacef62497c5e7ff1c6..04c3d6e46c0a8772cc14e3ed5e9c5036ec9221f4 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-02-04  Daniel Jacobowitz  <drow@mvista.com>
+
+       * regformats/regdef.h (struct reg): Add comment describing the
+       requirements for offset and size fields.
+
 2002-02-04  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
 
        * config/ia64/linux.mh: Don't set NAT_CLIBS and REGEX.
@@ -7,7 +12,7 @@
 
        * gdbarch.sh (copyright): Update years in generated header.
        (SMASH_TEXT_ADDRESS): Add rule.
-       *gdbarch.h, gdbarch.c: Re-generate.
+       * gdbarch.h, gdbarch.c: Re-generate.
        * coffread.c: Multi-arch uses of SMASH_TEXT_ADDRESS.
        * dbxread.c: Likewise.
        * dwarfread.c: Likewise.

diff --git a/gdb/regformats/regdef.h b/gdb/regformats/regdef.h
index d70a4885b2419a41ac9e5d23638f6c621ef10484..17174ee3c67038a8f4f202596595e2a97fd24809 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/regformats/regdef.h
+++ b/gdb/regformats/regdef.h
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ struct reg
   /* The name of this register - NULL for pad entries.  */
   const char *name;
 
+  /* At the moment, both of the following bit counts must be divisible
+     by eight (to match the representation as two hex digits) and divisible
+     by the size of a byte (to match the layout of each register in
+     memory).  */
+
   /* The offset (in bits) of the value of this register in the buffer.  */
   int offset;