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RFA: GDB manual: clarify lack of restrictions on 'm' packets
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:02:10 -0800
- Subject: RFA: GDB manual: clarify lack of restrictions on 'm' packets
This comes out of the recent discussion on gdb@:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2005-11/msg00282.html
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2005-11-15 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Packets): Clarify lack of restrictions on behavior
of stub when processing an 'm' packet.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2005-11-15 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Packets): Clarify lack of restrictions on behavior
of stub when processing an 'm' packet.
Index: gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.287
diff -c -p -r1.287 gdb.texinfo
*** gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 14 Nov 2005 03:27:22 -0000 1.287
--- gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 15 Nov 2005 08:59:04 -0000
*************** Reserved for future use.
*** 22347,22364 ****
@cindex @code{m} packet
Read @var{length} bytes of memory starting at address @var{addr}.
! Neither @value{GDBN} nor the stub assume that sized memory transfers are
! assumed using word aligned accesses. FIXME: @emph{A word aligned memory
! transfer mechanism is needed.}
Reply:
@table @samp
@item @var{XX@dots{}}
@var{XX@dots{}} is mem contents. Can be fewer bytes than requested if able
! to read only part of the data. Neither @value{GDBN} nor the stub assume
! that sized memory transfers are assumed using word aligned
! accesses. FIXME: @emph{A word aligned memory transfer mechanism is
! needed.}
@item E@var{NN}
@var{NN} is errno
@end table
--- 22347,22365 ----
@cindex @code{m} packet
Read @var{length} bytes of memory starting at address @var{addr}.
! Note that @var{addr} may not be aligned to any particular boundary.
!
! The stub need not use any particular size or alignment when gathering
! data from memory for the response; even if @var{addr} is word-aligned
! and @var{length} is a multiple of the word size, the stub is free to
! use byte accesses, or not. For this reason, this packet may not be
! suitable for accessing memory-mapped I/O devices.
Reply:
@table @samp
@item @var{XX@dots{}}
@var{XX@dots{}} is mem contents. Can be fewer bytes than requested if able
! to read only part of the data.
@item E@var{NN}
@var{NN} is errno
@end table