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Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:39:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Collecting strings at tracepoints
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> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:50:49 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <stan_shebs@mentor.com>
> 
> By default, when you ask to collect a char * at a tracepoint, only the 
> numeric address is collected, which is a problem if you really want the 
> string that the char * is pointing to.  This patch adds a /s option to 
> the collect action that will dereference character pointers and collect 
> the bytes up to the first zero, just as the familiar print command 
> does.  You can optionally add a limit to the collect, so for instance 
> "collect/s80 mystring" collects a maximum of 80 characters.

Thanks, the documentation part is approved.

Is this NEWS-worthy, btw?