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

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

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/regformats/regdef.h b/gdb/regformats/regdef.h
index d70a4885b24..17174ee3c67 100644
--- 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;