Clear up the documentation for the "container-regs" and "invalidate-regs" key/value...
authorGreg Clayton <gclayton@apple.com>
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:54:42 +0000 (23:54 +0000)
committerGreg Clayton <gclayton@apple.com>
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:54:42 +0000 (23:54 +0000)
llvm-svn: 173107

lldb/docs/lldb-gdb-remote.txt

index 83473d3..f9c0afc 100644 (file)
@@ -377,9 +377,17 @@ container-regs
                        This specifies that this register is contained in other concrete
                        register values. For example "eax" is in the lower 32 bits of the
                        "rax" register value for x86_64, so "eax" could specify that it is
-                       contained in "rax" by specifying the register number for "rax".
+                       contained in "rax" by specifying the register number for "rax" (whose
+                       register number is 0x00)
                        
-                       "container-regs:00,0a,3b;"
+                       "container-regs:00;"
+                       
+                       If a register is comprised of one or more registers, like "d0" is ARM
+                       which is a 64 bit register, it might be made up of "s0" and "s1". If
+                       the register number for "s0" is 0x20, and the register number of "s1"
+                       is "0x21", the "container-regs" key/value pair would be:
+                       
+                       "container-regs:20,21;"
                        
                        This is handy for defining what GDB used to call "pseudo" registers.
                        These registers are never requested by LLDB via the register read
@@ -391,9 +399,17 @@ invalidate-regs
                        leading "0x") register numbers.
                        
                        This specifies which register values should be invalidated when this
-                       register is modified.
+                       register is modified. For example if modifying "eax" would cause "rax",
+                       "eax", "ax", "ah", and "al" to be modified  where rax is 0x0, eax is 15,
+                       ax is 0x25, ah is 0x35, and al is 0x39, the "invalidate-regs" key/value
+                       pair would be:
 
-                       "invalidate-regs:01,0b,1e;"
+                       "invalidate-regs:0,15,25,35,39;"
+                       
+                       If there is a single register that gets invalidated, then omit the comma
+                       and just list a single register:
+                       
+                       "invalidate-regs:0;"
                        
                        This is handy when modifying a specific register can cause other
                        register values to change. For example, when debugging an ARM target,