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Update find command help and search memory docs
- From: Dominik Czarnota <dominik dot b dot czarnota at gmail dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:44:30 +0100
- Subject: Update find command help and search memory docs
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
Hey,
This patch updates `find` command help and docs description to show
how to search for not null terminated strings when current language's
strings includes it.
It addresses an issue I have opened here:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21945 and so it can be
closed.
Thanks,
Dominik aka 'disconnect3d'
gdb/ChangeLog:
PR gdb/21945
* findcmd.c (_initialize_mem_search), gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo: Update
find command description.
* doc/gdb.texinfo: Update search memory description and example.
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 00451d243d..5b9946a9cf 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -11920,6 +11920,8 @@ giant words (eight bytes)
All values are interpreted in the current language.
This means, for example, that if the current source language is C/C@t{++}
then searching for the string ``hello'' includes the trailing '\0'.
+The null terminator can be removed from searching by using casts,
+e.g.: @samp{{char[5]}"hello"}.
If the value size is not specified, it is taken from the
value's type in the current language.
@@ -11969,7 +11971,11 @@ you get during debugging:
(gdb) find &hello[0], +sizeof(hello), 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'
0x8049567 <hello.1620>
0x804956d <hello.1620+6>
-2 patterns found
+2 patterns found.
+(gdb) find &hello[0], +sizeof(hello), {char[5]}"hello"
+0x8049567 <hello.1620>
+0x804956d <hello.1620+6>
+2 patterns found.
(gdb) find /b1 &hello[0], +sizeof(hello), 'h', 0x65, 'l'
0x8049567 <hello.1620>
1 pattern found
diff --git a/gdb/findcmd.c b/gdb/findcmd.c
index b43fefc06d..ff6088eac1 100644
--- a/gdb/findcmd.c
+++ b/gdb/findcmd.c
@@ -293,7 +293,9 @@ and if not specified the size is taken from the
type of the expression\n\
in the current language.\n\
Note that this means for example that in the case of C-like languages\n\
a search for an untyped 0x42 will search for \"(int) 0x42\"\n\
-which is typically four bytes.\n\
+which is typically four bytes, and a search for a string \"hello\" will\n\
+include the tralinig '\\0'. The null terminator can be removed from\n\
+searching by using casts, e.g.: {char[5]}\"hello\".\n\
\n\
The address of the last match is stored as the value of \"$_\".\n\
Convenience variable \"$numfound\" is set to the number of matches."),