From patchwork Wed Aug 26 20:17:15 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Simon Marchi X-Patchwork-Id: 8466 Received: (qmail 29983 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 2015 20:17:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Delivered-To: mailing list gdb-patches@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 29971 invoked by uid 89); 26 Aug 2015 20:17:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: usevmg20.ericsson.net Received: from usevmg20.ericsson.net (HELO usevmg20.ericsson.net) (198.24.6.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:17:22 +0000 Received: from EUSAAHC002.ericsson.se (Unknown_Domain [147.117.188.78]) by usevmg20.ericsson.net (Symantec Mail Security) with SMTP id AA.DB.32596.611CDD55; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:37:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from elxcz23q12-y4.dyn.mo.ca.am.ericsson.se (147.117.188.8) by smtps-am.internal.ericsson.com (147.117.188.78) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.210.2; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:17:19 -0400 From: Simon Marchi To: CC: Simon Marchi Subject: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:17:15 -0400 Message-ID: <1440620235-24006-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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(+) 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*