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| author | Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> | 2020-10-07 12:07:55 -0600 |
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| committer | Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> | 2020-10-07 12:07:56 -0600 |
| commit | 3a135a918614676f3d5b6297714dfa235af3d59d (patch) | |
| tree | cc51327d11196aeb4298ad4f7424e0e8e44f700a /gdb | |
| parent | 60b746622b07063cdaae6207dd097576eca01128 (diff) | |
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Document inclusive range in help for "find"
PR gdb/16930 points out that the "find" command uses an inclusive
range; but this is not documented in the "help". This patch updates
the help text.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-10-07 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
PR gdb/16930:
* findcmd.c (_initialize_mem_search): Mention that the range is
inclusive.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/findcmd.c | 1 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 0b92bfb..ff6554d 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ 2020-10-07 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> + PR gdb/16930: + * findcmd.c (_initialize_mem_search): Mention that the range is + inclusive. + +2020-10-07 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> + * target.h (simple_search_memory): Don't declare. * target.c (simple_search_memory): Move to gdbsupport. (default_search_memory): Update. diff --git a/gdb/findcmd.c b/gdb/findcmd.c index c863157..3e4a790 100644 --- a/gdb/findcmd.c +++ b/gdb/findcmd.c @@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ find [/SIZE-CHAR] [/MAX-COUNT] START-ADDRESS, +LENGTH, EXPR1 [, EXPR2 ...]\n\ SIZE-CHAR is one of b,h,w,g for 8,16,32,64 bit values respectively,\n\ and if not specified the size is taken from the type of the expression\n\ in the current language.\n\ +The two-address form specifies an inclusive range.\n\ Note that this means for example that in the case of C-like languages\n\ a search for an untyped 0x42 will search for \"(int) 0x42\"\n\ which is typically four bytes, and a search for a string \"hello\" will\n\ |