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| author | Tankut Baris Aktemur <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com> | 2024-12-19 12:31:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Tankut Baris Aktemur <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com> | 2024-12-19 12:31:50 +0100 |
| commit | 53a7b478f54fc4150bc97f7af2b8d36bccd61b71 (patch) | |
| tree | 94f86175f1a4938c50513db89f49c05deb9b5218 /gdb/doc | |
| parent | dd0f53d189eec09e50a216ecafe451fef05acad4 (diff) | |
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doc: fine-tune the documentation of the 'm' RSP packet
Revise a sentence to avoid misinterpretation. Move @cindex entries
before the text they index. Refer to trace frames regarding partial
reads.
Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 1fd7267..20742d2 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -43094,24 +43094,25 @@ probes the target state as if a new connection was opened @item m @var{addr},@var{length} @cindex @samp{m} packet Read @var{length} addressable memory units starting at address @var{addr} -(@pxref{addressable memory unit}). Note that @var{addr} may not be aligned to -any particular boundary. +(@pxref{addressable memory unit}). Note that @var{addr} does not have to +be aligned to any particular boundary. +@cindex alignment of remote memory accesses +@cindex size of remote memory accesses +@cindex memory, alignment and size of remote accesses 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. -@cindex alignment of remote memory accesses -@cindex size of remote memory accesses -@cindex memory, alignment and size of remote accesses Reply: @table @samp @item @var{XX@dots{}} Memory contents; each byte is transmitted as a two-digit hexadecimal number. The reply may contain fewer addressable memory units than requested if the -server was able to read only part of the region of memory. +server was reading from a trace frame memory and was able to read only part +of the region of memory. @end table Unlike most packets, this packet does not support |