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Subject: Re: A copy/save command ...
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 09:39:00 -0000
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cagney wrote:

> [...]  Lets be honest, ``copy'' is a really bad name.  For all those
> reasons and probably more :-) [...]

Consider:

(gdb) image save FILE RANGE [FORMAT]
(gdb) image restore FILE [ADDR]
(gdb) image compare FILE [ADDR]

where, say, RANGE could be 
    ADDR1 ADDR2
    "region 1" -- previously set memory region

and FORMAT could be some bfd-supported forms like "srec" or "binary".


- FChE