memory search capability

memory search capability

[Doug Evans]

Anyone know of any work in this area since this?

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb/2001-03/msg00071.html

Re: memory search capability

[Michael Snyder]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 16:21 -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> Anyone know of any work in this area since this?
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb/2001-03/msg00071.html

I don't think so.  Every now and then, someone remarks that it 
would seem like a good idea.  No one ever does it.  Shouldn't be
that hard...

RE: memory search capability

[Paul Koning]

I've implemented this as a local mod.  Right now it doesn't have support
in the remote protocol, that's on the "to do next" list.

One bit of user feedback I got was to drop the results of the search
into some local variables so scripts could use that.  

Any suggestions for a suitable encoding for this in the packet protocol?

I could submit the code to the list if there's interest.

	paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org 
> [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Michael Snyder
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 7:35 PM
> To: Doug Evans
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: memory search capability
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 16:21 -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> > Anyone know of any work in this area since this?
> > 
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb/2001-03/msg00071.html
> 
> I don't think so.  Every now and then, someone remarks that it 
> would seem like a good idea.  No one ever does it.  Shouldn't be
> that hard...
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: memory search capability

[Doug Evans]

I'm guessing there's general agreement in getting this functionality
into gdb.  Can you post the patch?  I have some time to help work on
it.

Regarding examining the results of the search: I'm guessing the way to
handle that is in Python (once it's added).


On 12/26/07, Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> wrote:
> I've implemented this as a local mod.  Right now it doesn't have support
> in the remote protocol, that's on the "to do next" list.
>
> One bit of user feedback I got was to drop the results of the search
> into some local variables so scripts could use that.
>
> Any suggestions for a suitable encoding for this in the packet protocol?
>
> I could submit the code to the list if there's interest.
>
> 	paul
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org
> > [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Michael Snyder
> > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 7:35 PM
> > To: Doug Evans
> > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> > Subject: Re: memory search capability
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 16:21 -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> > > Anyone know of any work in this area since this?
> > >
> > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb/2001-03/msg00071.html
> >
> > I don't think so.  Every now and then, someone remarks that it
> > would seem like a good idea.  No one ever does it.  Shouldn't be
> > that hard...
> >
> >
> >
> >
>