From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6326 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2010 23:17:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 6317 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Dec 2010 23:17:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com) (65.115.85.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:17:38 +0000 Received: from mailhost2.vmware.com (mailhost2.vmware.com [10.16.67.167]) by smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29ED113079; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:17:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com (promd-2s-dhcp138.eng.vmware.com [10.20.124.138]) by mailhost2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2076A8ECD4; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:17:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D1A7010.2090608@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:52:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Frysinger CC: Joel Brobecker , "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" , "toolchain-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] sim: allow memory maps to default to mapped files References: <1293426471-5571-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <20101228063536.GF2596@adacore.com> <201012280238.03847.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201012280238.03847.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-12/txt/msg00525.txt.bz2 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 01:35:36 Joel Brobecker wrote: >>> I find it annoying when using --memory-mapfile that I also need to look >>> up and manually specify the file size to the following --memory-region >>> option. So make a length of 0 in the following --memory-region trigger >>> an auto-sizing of the map to the length of the file being mapped. >> Generally speaking, and that's not your fault, it would be nice to >> have some documentation about this module in the GDB Users' Manual. >> Would you be willing to help us in that department? - nothing fancy, >> but something very basic that quickly lists all available option >> and what they mean. This can be treated as a separate patch. > > i dont mind writing documentation, but i dont understand texi, so ive avoided > the format when possible. i believe all of the gdb documentation is based in > that format ? Eli has been very generous about taking plain-text submissions and tex-ifying them.