[v2,2/7] Cleanup some docs about memory write
Commit Message
On 15-06-15 05:57 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 06/12/2015 08:17 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
>
>> Actually it seems obvious now. I'll drop this part from the patch. If we want
>> to clarify the comments we should do it for all the functions of the interface
>> (in a separate patch).
>>
>> Well then, all that remains would be to fix that stale comment. Is it ok?
>
> OK.
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves
Thanks, pushed as this:
From cb6f16cf4f7a12f9aadddc0451d47f0511729c8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:34:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Cleanup write_memory doc
This doc about write_memory seems outdated.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* corefile.c (write_memory): Update doc.
* gdbcore.h (write_memory): Same.
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gdb/corefile.c | 4 ++--
gdb/gdbcore.h | 6 ++----
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-06-15 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+ * corefile.c (write_memory): Update doc.
+ * gdbcore.h (write_memory): Same.
+
2015-06-15 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* linux-tdep.c (enum filterflags): Make it from anonymous enum.
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ read_memory_typed_address (CORE_ADDR addr, struct type *type)
return extract_typed_address (buf, type);
}
-/* Same as target_write_memory, but report an error if can't
- write. */
+/* See gdbcore.h. */
+
void
write_memory (CORE_ADDR memaddr,
const bfd_byte *myaddr, ssize_t len)
@@ -101,10 +101,8 @@ extern void read_memory_string (CORE_ADDR, char *, int);
CORE_ADDR read_memory_typed_address (CORE_ADDR addr, struct type *type);
-/* This takes a char *, not void *. This is probably right, because
- passing in an int * or whatever is wrong with respect to
- byteswapping, alignment, different sizes for host vs. target types,
- etc. */
+/* Same as target_write_memory, but report an error if can't
+ write. */
extern void write_memory (CORE_ADDR memaddr, const gdb_byte *myaddr,
ssize_t len);