Re: dump memory to file

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>]

On Aug 22, 11:00am, Grant Edwards wrote:

> A while back I had asked if gdb could dump a section of target
> memory to disk (as bin, elf, hex, whatever).  The answer at the
> time was no -- is that still the case?  If I added such a
> command, would it be of interest to anybody else? (IOW, should
> I submit a patch?)

I think it'd be nice to provide a more general solution.  I.e, I think
it'd be nice if GDB had a facility whereby output from subsequent
commands would be redirected to a file.  Maybe something along the
following lines?

(gdb) redirect-output /tmp/foo
(gdb) x/10000x 0x01000
(gdb) print/x $pc
(gdb) x/100i $pc-200
(gdb) redirect-output STDOUT

And, it'd also be nice to redirect to be able to redirect to two or
more destinations at the same time...

(gdb) redirect-output /tmp/foo STDOUT
...

Kevin