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* Copyright (c) 2013, 2014 Mentor Graphics and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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*
* Contributors:
* Mentor Graphics - Initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.service;
import org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.concurrent.RequestMonitor;
import org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.debug.service.IMemory;
/**
* Provides access to memory related data such as address size and endianness.
*
* @since 4.2
*/
public interface IGDBMemory extends IMemory {
/**
* This method is required to retrieve data from GDB asynchronously. The Platform's
* memory related API is not asynchronous, so the data can not be acquired on demand.
*/
public void initializeMemoryData(IMemoryDMContext ctx, RequestMonitor rm);
/**
* Returns the address size (in octets) of the memory specified by the given context.
*/
public int getAddressSize(IMemoryDMContext context);
/**
* Returns whether the memory specified by the given context is big endian.
*/
public boolean isBigEndian(IMemoryDMContext context);
}