Cleanup write_memory doc

This doc about write_memory seems outdated.

gdb/ChangeLog:

	* corefile.c (write_memory): Update doc.
	* gdbcore.h (write_memory): Same.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index db7fb63852d58b4f76c39a1ae863f0c5d5117250..a63d8944aec4b954656644b496a2865f43a2f2ae 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -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.

diff --git a/gdb/corefile.c b/gdb/corefile.c
index a042e6d9fb176cba169f113f5d820c7acb91f07b..5246f7192ecaf0dc8ff0df360a5d4db4770d719d 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/corefile.c
+++ b/gdb/corefile.c
@@ -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)

diff --git a/gdb/gdbcore.h b/gdb/gdbcore.h
index a437c8af7b9152c5456683740354c32ce1c7655c..0c08b3739870f1b646bdf3141c49341b613ffe83 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/gdbcore.h
+++ b/gdb/gdbcore.h
@@ -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);