From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: A copy/save command ...
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 01:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C341E2D.6050009@cygnus.com> (raw)
Hello,
To toss out an idea. One of those oft mentioned missing features is a
command to read/write binary data to/from GDB's target memory. There is
the load command, but that works on object files (readable via BFD).
Anyway, I've two vague thoughts on the syntax/semantics:
1. (gdb) copy <expression> <file>
The result of <expression> is written to the raw file. This expoits the
fact that GDB stores an expression in target form in host memory.
Consequently, the copy command just writes that raw data to the file.
2. (gdb) copy <address> <length> <file>
or (gdb) copy/<length> <address> <file>
or similar. A more traditional <address>/<length> approach.
``copy/<length>'' comes from ``x/<length>''.
better suggestions welcome.
enjoy,
Andrew
next reply other threads:[~2002-01-03 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-03 1:02 Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-01-03 12:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-03 20:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-04 9:39 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2002-01-04 11:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-04 12:57 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-04 13:02 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2002-01-04 13:24 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-04 14:12 ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-04 14:48 ` Grant Edwards
2002-01-04 14:10 ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-17 16:27 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-17 17:14 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2002-02-08 13:55 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-23 10:24 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-17 17:29 ` Vlasios Tsiatsis
2002-02-08 13:24 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-17 23:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <1010165997.16220.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2002-01-04 12:03 ` Edward Swarthout
2002-01-04 12:48 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-04 13:18 ` Edward Swarthout
2002-01-04 14:14 ` Michael Snyder
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