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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.debug.core.model;


import org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException;
 
/**
 * A register is a special kind of variable that is contained
 * in a register group. Each register has a name and a value.
 * Not all debug architectures provide access to registers.
 * <p>
 * Clients may implement this interface.
 * </p>
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface IRegister extends IVariable {
	
	/**
	 * Returns the register group this register is contained in.
	 * 
	 * @return the register group this register is contained in
	 * @exception DebugException if this method fails.  Reasons include:
	 * <ul><li>Failure communicating with the debug target.  The DebugException's
	 * status code contains the underlying exception responsible for
	 * the failure.</li>
	 */
	public IRegisterGroup getRegisterGroup() throws DebugException; 

}

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