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Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS

Message ID 1440620235-24006-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com
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Simon Marchi Aug. 26, 2015, 8:17 p.m. UTC 
  I think it would be a good idea to document that gdb now has (basic)
support to read/write memory on architectures with non-8-bits memory.
Hopefully somebody will see it and say "Hey!  We can now (more easily)
port GDB to our strange DSP that has 32-bits-addressable memory!" and do
it.

gdb/ChangeLog:

	* NEWS: Document support for non-8-bits addressable memory.
---
 gdb/NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Comments

Eli Zaretskii Aug. 27, 2015, 2:37 a.m. UTC | #1 
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> CC: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:17:15 -0400
> 
> I think it would be a good idea to document that gdb now has (basic)
> support to read/write memory on architectures with non-8-bits memory.
> Hopefully somebody will see it and say "Hey!  We can now (more easily)
> port GDB to our strange DSP that has 32-bits-addressable memory!" and do
> it.

Thanks.

> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* NEWS: Document support for non-8-bits addressable memory.
> ---
>  gdb/NEWS | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index 49c4a11..ed4d968 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ show remote multiprocess-extensions-packet
>    target mon2000	mon2000 ROM monitor
>    target ppcbug		PPCBUG ROM monitor for PowerPC
>  
> +* Support for reading/writing memory and extracting values on architectures
> +  with non-8-bits-addressable memory.  A 16-bits-addressable memory, for
> +  example, is one for which each address holds a 16-bits value (as opposed to
> +  the more common 8-bits).

I think you should drop the second sentence, as it doesn't add any
useful information and is slightly inaccurate.  I think everyone will
understand what non-8-bits-addressable means.
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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 49c4a11..ed4d968 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@  show remote multiprocess-extensions-packet
   target mon2000	mon2000 ROM monitor
   target ppcbug		PPCBUG ROM monitor for PowerPC
 
+* Support for reading/writing memory and extracting values on architectures
+  with non-8-bits-addressable memory.  A 16-bits-addressable memory, for
+  example, is one for which each address holds a 16-bits value (as opposed to
+  the more common 8-bits).
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.10
 
 * Support for process record-replay and reverse debugging on aarch64*-linux*