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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Edward Swarthout <Ed.Swarthout@Motorola.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: A copy/save command ...
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C361502.7080708@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201042003.g04K3F219582@pacific.somerset.sps.mot.com>

Just some side notes.  I don't disagree with your logic.



> gdb> load BINFILE1 .bss


Some versions of load already have a syntax like:

	(gdb) load file [ <offset> ]

see symfile.c:generic_load()

>  or
> gdb> dump BINFILE2 load1
>  would do the desired thing.


I've been playing with load/store architectures for too long - I keep 
thinking that the oposite of load is store ... :-(


> It would be natural to add core file support to load/dump too.
> 
> There is still the issue of how to specify the format (binary,
> elf-core, elf-object, srec, or other bfd type).  Maybe some borrow
> the syntax from objcopy or the loader.


something like:

load/FORMAT
st^D^D dump/FORMAT

Trying to re-use objcopy would be a good idea (if helpful).

Andrew




  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-04 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1010165997.16220.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2002-01-04 12:03 ` Edward Swarthout
2002-01-04 12:48   ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-01-04 13:18     ` Edward Swarthout
2002-01-04 14:14   ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-03  1:02 Andrew Cagney
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

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