extern struct regcache *current_regcache;
void regcache_xfree (struct regcache *regcache);
+struct cleanup *make_cleanup_regcache_xfree (struct regcache *regcache);
struct regcache *regcache_xmalloc (struct gdbarch *gdbarch);
/* Transfer a raw register [0..NUM_REGS) between core-gdb and the
regcache. */
-void regcache_read (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum, char *buf);
-void regcache_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum, char *buf);
+void regcache_raw_read (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum, void *buf);
+void regcache_raw_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum,
+ const void *buf);
+extern void regcache_raw_read_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int regnum, LONGEST *val);
+extern void regcache_raw_read_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
+extern void regcache_raw_write_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int regnum, LONGEST val);
+extern void regcache_raw_write_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int regnum, ULONGEST val);
+
+/* Partial transfer of a raw registers. These perform read, modify,
+ write style operations. */
+
+void regcache_raw_read_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
+ int offset, int len, void *buf);
+void regcache_raw_write_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
+ int offset, int len, const void *buf);
+
int regcache_valid_p (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum);
-CORE_ADDR regcache_read_as_address (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum);
+
+/* Transfer a cooked register [0..NUM_REGS+NUM_PSEUDO_REGS). */
+void regcache_cooked_read (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum, void *buf);
+void regcache_cooked_write (struct regcache *regcache, int rawnum,
+ const void *buf);
+
+/* NOTE: cagney/2002-08-13: At present GDB has no reliable mechanism
+ for indicating when a ``cooked'' register was constructed from
+ invalid or unavailable ``raw'' registers. One fairly easy way of
+ adding such a mechanism would be for the cooked functions to return
+ a register valid indication. Given the possibility of such a
+ change, the extract functions below use a reference parameter,
+ rather than a function result. */
+
+/* Read a register as a signed/unsigned quantity. */
+extern void regcache_cooked_read_signed (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int regnum, LONGEST *val);
+extern void regcache_cooked_read_unsigned (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int regnum, ULONGEST *val);
+
+/* Partial transfer of a cooked register. These perform read, modify,
+ write style operations. */
+
+void regcache_cooked_read_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
+ int offset, int len, void *buf);
+void regcache_cooked_write_part (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum,
+ int offset, int len, const void *buf);
/* Transfer a raw register [0..NUM_REGS) between the regcache and the
target. These functions are called by the target in response to a
target_fetch_registers() or target_store_registers(). */
-extern void supply_register (int regnum, char *val);
+extern void supply_register (int regnum, const void *val);
extern void regcache_collect (int regnum, void *buf);
+/* The register's ``offset''.
+
+ NOTE: cagney/2002-08-17: The ``struct value'' and expression
+ evaluator treat the register cache as a large liner buffer.
+ Instead of reading/writing a register using its register number,
+ the code read/writes registers by specifying their offset into the
+ buffer and a number of bytes. The code also assumes that these
+ byte read/writes can cross register boundaries, adjacent registers
+ treated as a contiguous set of bytes.
+
+ The below map that model onto the real register cache. New code
+ should go out of their way to avoid using these interfaces.
+
+ FIXME: cagney/2002-08-17: The ``struct value'' and expression
+ evaluator should be fixed. Instead of using the { offset, length }
+ pair to describe a value within one or more registers, the code
+ should use a chain of { regnum, offset, len } tripples. */
+
+extern int register_offset_hack (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);
+extern void regcache_cooked_read_using_offset_hack (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int offset, int len,
+ void *buf);
+extern void regcache_cooked_write_using_offset_hack (struct regcache *regcache,
+ int offset, int len,
+ const void *buf);
+
+
+/* The type of a register. This function is slightly more efficient
+ then its gdbarch vector counterpart since it returns a precomputed
+ value stored in a table.
+
+ NOTE: cagney/2002-08-17: The original macro was called
+ REGISTER_VIRTUAL_TYPE. This was because the register could have
+ different raw and cooked (nee virtual) representations. The
+ CONVERTABLE methods being used to convert between the two
+ representations. Current code does not do this. Instead, the
+ first [0..NUM_REGS) registers are 1:1 raw:cooked, and the type
+ exactly describes the register's representation. Consequently, the
+ ``virtual'' has been dropped.
+
+ FIXME: cagney/2002-08-17: A number of architectures, including the
+ MIPS, are currently broken in this regard. */
+
+extern struct type *register_type (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum);
+
+
+/* Return the size of the largest register. Used when allocating
+ space for an aribtrary register value. */
+
+extern int max_register_size (struct gdbarch *gdbarch);
+
+
/* DEPRECATED: Character array containing an image of the inferior
programs' registers for the most recently referenced thread. */
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