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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
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Subject: Re: A copy/save command ...
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> Hi -
> 
> cagney wrote:
> 
>> > [...]
>> > where, say, RANGE could be 
>> > ADDR1 ADDR2
>> > "region 1" -- previously set memory region
> 
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you mean by a previously set memory region. [...]
> 
> 
> I was referring to regions as managed by the "mem" command, as in
> 
> (gdb) mem 2000 2500
> (gdb) info mem
> [...]
> (gdb) image store region 1 /my/file srec


Ok, it would need a different syntax though.  region and 1 are both 
valid addresses.  (not that I'm actually going to implement this part).


>> I'm wondering what the semantics of ``restore'' are and how they differ 
>> from load in some cases.  Perhaphs ``(gdb) load <file> <offset>'' is 
>> syntatic sugar for one of the ``(gdb) image ...'' commands.
> 
> 
> Yes, quite possibly.


I'm still wondering what the semantics of restore are ...

Andrew