-data-read-memory docs (Was: MI -break-info command issues)

[Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>]

On Friday 27 January 2006 20:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From:  Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
> > Date:  Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:59:56 +0300
> >
> > >     The first memory address to be displayed on the next/previous
> > >     row or page is given as the values of the fields `next-row' and
> > >     `prev-row', `next-page' and `prev-page', respectively.
> >
> > This misses the definition of 'page' and definition of 'next'/'prev'.
> > Based on looking on the code, I could suggest this:
> >
> >    Assuming memory is a sequence of "pages", where each "page" is
> > "total-nr" bytes the "next-page" is the address of page directly after
> > the page returned by -data-read-memory, and "prev-page" is the address of
> > the first byte of the directly preceding page. Likewise, assuming memory
> > is a sequence of rows, where each row is word_size*nr_cols bytes,
> > "next-row" is the address of the row directly after the first one in the
> > -data-read-memory output (that is, the address of the second row of the
> > output, if there's second row). The "prev-row" is the start address of
> > the row directly preceding the first output row.
>
> Thanks, but this is too wordy.  I will try to come up with some
> suitable definition of `page'.  (I don;t think that `previous' needs a
> definition; perhaps you meant that `previous page' needs it.)

Eli,
have you had a chance to think about a better documentation for this?

Thanks,
Volodya