Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Back in January, there was a discussion about adding commands that
> would allow gdb to copy data from target memory to a file and back
> again.  Andrew and I have done an implementation of those commands,
> and here it is for your approval.
> 
> The syntax looks like this:
> 
> dump <format> <filename> memory <start> <end>
> dump <format> <filename> value  <expression>
> restore <filename> <offset> <start> <end>
> 
> Where <format> may be srec, ihex, tekhex, or binary (defaulting
> to binary).  Start and end may be numeric or symbolic.
> Expression can be any expression that GDB can normally evaluate.
> 
> The restore command can copy a file back into target memory
> for any running target.  It can bias the copy by an offset,
> and it can copy a subrange of the file (specified by start and
> end, which are file-relative ie. before the offset is applied).
> 
> There is also an alternate form of the dump command called
> append, which will append new data onto an existing file;
> it only works with the binary file format at present.
> 

Committed, with docs, and slight mods as shown below.