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[Kevin Buettner]

On Jul 24,  2:50pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> > FYI, J.T.C. was working on infrastructure to teach GDB about memory 
> > attributes.  A basic framework is in place only nothing uses it.
> > I believe his next step was to extend the protocol so that memory 
> > packets could include things like the read size.
> 
> I think we also need some programmatic interface to define memory
> attributes.  Right now, the only way to do that is with an interactive
> command, because the rest of the interface is private to memattr.c.
> 
> I was thinking about using memory attributes to allow GDB access to
> segments outside the normal address space of the program being
> debugged.  This would need some additions to the memory attributes,
> but the real show-stopper is that there's no way to define regions and
> attributes except interactively.

Why is this a show stopper?  A sequence of commands which define
attributes for different memory ranges can be placed in a file and
then sourced...

Kevin