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@section Caching Data of Remote Targets
@cindex caching data of remote targets
-@value{GDBN} can cache data exchanged between the debugger and a
+@value{GDBN} caches data exchanged between the debugger and a
remote target (@pxref{Remote Debugging}). Such caching generally improves
performance, because it reduces the overhead of the remote protocol by
-bundling memory reads and writes into large chunks. Unfortunately,
-@value{GDBN} does not currently know anything about volatile
-registers, and thus data caching will produce incorrect results when
-volatile registers are in use.
+bundling memory reads and writes into large chunks. Unfortunately, simply
+caching everything would lead to incorrect results, since @value{GDBN}
+does not necessarily know anything about volatile values, memory-mapped I/O
+addresses, etc. Therefore, by default, @value{GDBN} only caches data
+known to be on the stack. Other regions of memory can be explicitly marked
+cacheable; see @pxref{Memory Region Attributes}.
@table @code
@kindex set remotecache
@item set remotecache on
@itemx set remotecache off
-Set caching state for remote targets. When @code{ON}, use data
-caching. By default, this option is @code{OFF}.
+This option no longer does anything; it exists for compatibility
+with old scripts.
@kindex show remotecache
@item show remotecache
-Show the current state of data caching for remote targets.
+Show the current state of the obsolete remotecache flag.
+
+@kindex set stack-cache
+@item set stack-cache on
+@itemx set stack-cache off
+Enable or disable caching of stack accesses. When @code{ON}, use
+caching. By default, this option is @code{ON}.
+
+@kindex show stack-cache
+@item show stack-cache
+Show the current state of data caching for memory accesses.
@kindex info dcache
-@item info dcache
+@item info dcache @r{[}line@r{]}
Print the information about the data cache performance. The
-information displayed includes: the dcache width and depth; and for
-each cache line, how many times it was referenced, and its data and
-state (invalid, dirty, valid). This command is useful for debugging
-the data cache operation.
+information displayed includes the dcache width and depth, and for
+each cache line, its number, address, and how many times it was
+referenced. This command is useful for debugging the data cache
+operation.
+
+If a line number is specified, the contents of that line will be
+printed in hex.
@end table
@node Searching Memory