From: oharboe Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 07:56:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: added some comments on meminfo command X-Git-Tag: v0.2.0~562 X-Git-Url: https://review.openocd.org/gitweb?p=openocd.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d12a47d558dbe859f3ce8ab85b49eb72595cc854 added some comments on meminfo command git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk@1948 b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60 --- diff --git a/doc/openocd.texi b/doc/openocd.texi index 60987a9900..d89e29eeac 100644 --- a/doc/openocd.texi +++ b/doc/openocd.texi @@ -3488,7 +3488,9 @@ state. @section Memory access commands @anchor{Memory access} @subsection meminfo -display available RAM memory. +display available RAM memory on OpenOCD host. Used in OpenOCD regression testing scripts. Mainly +useful on embedded targets, PC type hosts have complimentary tools like Valgrind to address +resource tracking problems. @subsection Memory peek/poke type commands These commands allow accesses of a specific size to the memory system. Often these are used to configure the current target in some