* simplistic examine command
@ 2007-08-02 23:51 Andrew Cagney
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From: Andrew Cagney @ 2007-08-02 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: frysk
FYI,
I've added a very simplistic implementation of the examine command. My
main purpose is to help illustrate the differences between "print" and
"examine" by providing more concrete code. It is far from finished (it
should list location addresses et.al.)
The main thing to note is the implementation vis:
Value v = <<evaluate expression>>
ByteBuffer b = v.getLocation().getByteBuffer()
for (int i = 0; i < b.capacity(); i++)
print b.getByte(i)
Thus examine is about examining the value's underlying data in different
formats, for instance, consider:
(fhpd) print int_22
22
(fhpd) examine int_22
0: 22
1: 0
2: 0
3: 0
The print command, on the other hand, is much simpler. it's
implementation is meant to be:
Format format = Format.???
Value v = <<evalutate expression>>
v.toPrint(printWriter, getMemory(), format)
For instance:
(fhpd) print struct_s --format x
{ int a = 0x1; int b = 0x2 }
(Ok, it doesn't at present, there's some stray code to delete :-). That
is it always displays a value according to that value's type. But
possibly with the formating of fields changed slightly.
This is different to gdb's examine command which can only examine
memory, and not arbitrary values that are possibly in memory and/or
registers.
Andrew
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