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Re: [patch] memory commands


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: [patch] memory commands
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:12:33 +0100
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Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:

> This patch adds a "memory" module, which currently contains two
> commands:
>       Usage: memdump [address [len]]
>       Dump the contents of memory.
>
>       Usage: memset address (value [len] | trap)
>       Write a 32-bit quantity to memory.
>
> Future commands could include "memload" (load a file into memory) and
> "memsearch" (search for a given value or string in a specified area of
> memory. I haven't needed those yet.

Personally I prefer to call this module `memdebug'.  In that case it
is clear that it is intended for debugging, not for other memory
related commands (which we might need someday, but are not related at
all).

> Comments?

I'd like to do a full review later in the weekend, if possible.

--
Marco





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