From: Aaron Griffith <aargri@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:34:56 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: gdb/doc: qSearch:memory packets use escaped binary patterns
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gdb/doc: qSearch:memory packets use escaped binary patterns

The `qSearch:memory` packet uses hex encoding for the address and
length arguments, but the search-pattern argument uses escaped binary.

Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 7718a9c4d83..7f8d7587e52 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -44887,7 +44887,8 @@ packets.)
 @anchor{qSearch memory}
 Search @var{length} bytes at @var{address} for @var{search-pattern}.
 Both @var{address} and @var{length} are encoded in hex;
-@var{search-pattern} is a sequence of bytes, also hex encoded.
+@var{search-pattern} is a sequence of binary-encoded bytes
+(@pxref{Binary Data}).
 
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