register view

[JG]

I have VC Pro V.6x. running on AMD Turion 64x2,
I notice in the debugger that there are still many MMX
(or whatever) registers viewable in the register window
even when I uncheck the floating point register box.
I surmise these are registers of the newer processors.
and there is no way to get them out of the view is there?

[John Dallman]

Post by JG
I have VC Pro V.6x. running on AMD Turion 64x2,
I notice in the debugger that there are still many MMX
(or whatever) registers viewable in the register window
even when I uncheck the floating point register box.
I surmise these are registers of the newer processors.
and there is no way to get them out of the view is there?

VC6 can only display registers it knows about. The MMX registers date
from the Pentium MMX, in around 1992, and the XMM ones from the Pentium
4, 2001. VC6's debugger was updated at the various service packs to be
able to cope with these at a basic level, but it's pretty basic.

What the control for floating point register display actually controls
is the display of the x87 floating-point register stack. VC6 doesn't
have finer-grained controls for the register display window, but VS.2005
does. VS.2005 really is a lot better all round: remember that VC6
basically is nine years old now.

[JG]

Post by John Dallman
VC6 doesn't
have finer-grained controls for the register display window, but VS.2005
does. VS.2005 really is a lot better all round: remember that VC6
basically is nine years old now.

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Thank you for the reply
Do you know if they offer a student discount on VS 2005, or what various
packaged content scenarios they have of VS 2005?

[Alex Blekhman]

Post by JG
Do you know if they offer a student discount on VS 2005,
or what various
packaged content scenarios they have of VS 2005?

There is Express Edition of VS 2005, which is absolutely
free.

"Visual Studio Express"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

Alex

[Alex Blekhman]

Here's the direct link to VC++ 2005 EE:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa700735.aspx

HTH
Alex

[JG]

Post by Alex Blekhman
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa700735.aspx

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Wow thats great, however I'm wondering am I going to lose some
Workspace and debugger capabilties that my Pro version of VC ++ v.6 offers.

[Alex Blekhman]

Post by JG

Post by Alex Blekhman
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa700735.aspx

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Wow thats great, however I'm wondering am I going to lose
some
Workspace and debugger capabilties that my Pro version of
VC ++ v.6 offers.

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