Console Commands
A-20 AlphaStation 500 Series User Information
Command Option
Description
<
address>
An address that specifies the offset within a device into which
data is deposited. The address may also be any legal symbolic
address. Valid symbolic addresses are:
•
gpr-name
. Symbol representing general-purpose register
•
ipr-name
. Symbol representing internal-processor register
•
PC
. Program counter
•
+
. The location immediately following the last location
referenced by an
examine
or
deposit command
.
•
-
. The location immediately preceding the last location
referenced by an
examine
or
deposit
command.
•
*.
The location last referenced by an
examine
or
deposit
command.
•
@.
The location addressed by the last location referenced
by an
examine
or
deposit
command.
<
data>
The data to be deposited.
Deposit Command Examples
Table A-8 shows
deposit
command examples and their descriptions.
Table A-8 Deposit Command Examples
Command
Description
>>>d -n 1FF pmem:0 0
Clears the first 512 bytes of physical memory.
>>>d -l -n 3 pmem:1234 5
Deposits 5 into four longwords starting at
physical memory address 1234.
>>>d -n 8 R0 FFFFFFFF
Loads GPRs R0 through R8 with -1.
>>>d -l -n 10 -s 200 pmem:0 8
Deposits 8 in the first longword of the first 17
pages in physical memory.