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Re: A copy/save command ...

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:39:52PM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> 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".

I like it!  I'm not sure putting [FORMAT] is really worthwhile, though
- srec and binary would work, but we don't have enough information for
more complex formats.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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