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Re: A copy/save command ...


On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:07:09PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> "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".
> 
> If its a bfd-supported format such as srec, you can already use the
> "load" command to put it back onto the target later.  Then all you
> have to worry about is the opposite-of-load direction.

For me, it's binary as often as not.  I haven't tried the
"load" command with binary data recently...

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com


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