From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add -verify option to load command
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 07:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360lrcnlh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51235c70-a165-37de-c6f1-e54e17d72213@codesourcery.com> (message from Luis Machado on Fri, 6 Jan 2017 12:30:06 -0600)
> CC: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> From: Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 12:30:06 -0600
>
> >> +The optional @code{-verify} argument enables verification of the data that was
> >> +loaded to the target's memory.
> >
> > I think the manual should explain what "verification" means in this
> > context.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> Something along the lines of...
>
> "GDB will make sure all the memory regions that were written to the
> target's memory have their correct values, otherwise an error will be
> issued."?
>
> Should i go even further to explain how the comparison is made?
I'd suggest
GDB will read back the memory regions that were written, and if some
value is not as written, will issue an error message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-07 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-06 16:42 Luis Machado
2017-01-06 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-06 18:30 ` Luis Machado
2017-01-07 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-01-06 19:17 ` Simon Marchi
2017-01-06 19:33 ` Luis Machado
2017-01-06 19:59 ` Simon Marchi
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