[PATCH 05/13] scripts/gdb: Add read_u16/32/64 helpers

[Jan Kiszka]

From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Add helpers for reading integers from target memory buffers. Required
when caching the memory access is more efficient than reading individual
values via gdb.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/gdb/utils.py |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/utils.py
index 40356d9..17762c5 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/utils.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/utils.py
@@ -70,3 +70,21 @@ def get_target_endianness():
 		else:
 			raise gdb.GdgError("unknown endianness '%s'" % endian)
 	return target_endianness
+
+def read_u16(buffer):
+	if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+		return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8)
+	else:
+		return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8)
+
+def read_u32(buffer):
+	if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+		return read_u16(buffer[0:2]) + (read_u16(buffer[2:4]) << 16)
+	else:
+		return read_u16(buffer[2:4]) + (read_u16(buffer[0:2]) << 16)
+
+def read_u64(buffer):
+	if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+		return read_u32(buffer[0:4]) + (read_u32(buffer[4:8]) << 32)
+	else:
+		return read_u32(buffer[4:8]) + (read_u32(buffer[0:4]) << 32)
-- 
1.7.3.4

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