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. */
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.