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<h3 class="section">10.18 Copy Between Memory and a File</h3>
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You can use the commands <code>dump</code>, <code>append</code>, and
<code>restore</code> to copy data between target memory and a file. The
<code>dump</code> and <code>append</code> commands write data to a file, and the
<code>restore</code> command reads data from a file back into the inferior's
memory. Files may be in binary, Motorola S-record, Intel hex,
Tektronix Hex, or Verilog Hex format; however, <span class="sc">gdb</span> can only
append to binary files, and cannot read from Verilog Hex files.
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<dl><dt><code>dump </code><span class="roman">[</span><var>format</var><span class="roman">]</span><code> memory </code><var>filename</var> <var>start_addr</var> <var>end_addr</var><dt><code>dump </code><span class="roman">[</span><var>format</var><span class="roman">]</span><code> value </code><var>filename</var> <var>expr</var><dd>Dump the contents of memory from <var>start_addr</var> to <var>end_addr</var>,
or the value of <var>expr</var>, to <var>filename</var> in the given format.
<p>The <var>format</var> parameter may be any one of:
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<dt><code>binary</code><dd>Raw binary form.
<br><dt><code>ihex</code><dd>Intel hex format.
<br><dt><code>srec</code><dd>Motorola S-record format.
<br><dt><code>tekhex</code><dd>Tektronix Hex format.
<br><dt><code>verilog</code><dd>Verilog Hex format.
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<p><span class="sc">gdb</span> uses the same definitions of these formats as the
<span class="sc">gnu</span> binary utilities, like &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">objdump</span></samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">objcopy</span></samp>&rsquo;. If
<var>format</var> is omitted, <span class="sc">gdb</span> dumps the data in raw binary
form.
<p><a name="index-append-796"></a><br><dt><code>append </code><span class="roman">[</span><code>binary</code><span class="roman">]</span><code> memory </code><var>filename</var> <var>start_addr</var> <var>end_addr</var><dt><code>append </code><span class="roman">[</span><code>binary</code><span class="roman">]</span><code> value </code><var>filename</var> <var>expr</var><dd>Append the contents of memory from <var>start_addr</var> to <var>end_addr</var>,
or the value of <var>expr</var>, to the file <var>filename</var>, in raw binary form.
(<span class="sc">gdb</span> can only append data to files in raw binary form.)
<p><a name="index-restore-797"></a><br><dt><code>restore </code><var>filename</var> <span class="roman">[</span><code>binary</code><span class="roman">]</span> <var>bias</var> <var>start</var> <var>end</var><dd>Restore the contents of file <var>filename</var> into memory. The
<code>restore</code> command can automatically recognize any known <span class="sc">bfd</span>
file format, except for raw binary. To restore a raw binary file you
must specify the optional keyword <code>binary</code> after the filename.
<p>If <var>bias</var> is non-zero, its value will be added to the addresses
contained in the file. Binary files always start at address zero, so
they will be restored at address <var>bias</var>. Other bfd files have
a built-in location; they will be restored at offset <var>bias</var>
from that location.
<p>If <var>start</var> and/or <var>end</var> are non-zero, then only data between
file offset <var>start</var> and file offset <var>end</var> will be restored.
These offsets are relative to the addresses in the file, before
the <var>bias</var> argument is applied.
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