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| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation 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: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.debug.core.model; |
| |
| |
| import org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Supports the retrieval of arbitrary blocks of memory. |
| * |
| * @see IMemoryBlock |
| * @since 2.0 |
| */ |
| public interface IMemoryBlockRetrieval { |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns whether this debug target supports the retrieval |
| * of memory blocks. |
| * |
| * @return whether this debug target supports the retrieval |
| * of memory blocks |
| */ |
| public boolean supportsStorageRetrieval(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns a memory block that starts at the specified |
| * memory address, with the specified length. |
| * |
| * @param startAddress starting address |
| * @param length length of the memory block in bytes |
| * @return a memory block that starts at the specified |
| * memory address, with the specified length |
| * @exception DebugException if this method fails. Reasons include: |
| * <ul><li>Failure communicating with the debug target. The DebugException's |
| * status code contains the underlying exception responsible for |
| * the failure.</li> |
| * <li>This debug target does not support memory block retrieval</li> |
| * <li>The specified address and length are not within valid |
| * ranges</li> |
| * </ul> |
| */ |
| public IMemoryBlock getMemoryBlock(long startAddress, long length) throws DebugException; |
| } |
| |