From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Buettner To: Eli Zaretskii , Andrew Cagney Cc: Naushit Sakarvadia , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: 8 bit read Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:25:00 -0000 Message-id: <1010724162531.ZM20232@ocotillo.lan> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00341.html On Jul 24, 2:50pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > FYI, J.T.C. was working on infrastructure to teach GDB about memory > > attributes. A basic framework is in place only nothing uses it. > > I believe his next step was to extend the protocol so that memory > > packets could include things like the read size. > > I think we also need some programmatic interface to define memory > attributes. Right now, the only way to do that is with an interactive > command, because the rest of the interface is private to memattr.c. > > I was thinking about using memory attributes to allow GDB access to > segments outside the normal address space of the program being > debugged. This would need some additions to the memory attributes, > but the real show-stopper is that there's no way to define regions and > attributes except interactively. Why is this a show stopper? A sequence of commands which define attributes for different memory ranges can be placed in a file and then sourced... Kevin