Re: [PATCH v5 24/25] Add NEWS entry.

[Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 2021-01-27 3:21 p.m., Luis Machado via Gdb-patches wrote:
> Updates on v4:
> 
> - Update command names.
> 
> --
> 
> Mention the new packets and memory tagging features.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
> YYYY-MM-DD  Luis Machado  <luis.machado@linaro.org>
> 
> 	* NEWS: Mention memory tagging changes.
> ---
>  gdb/NEWS | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index d2ed28857b..a4e08491ee 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -3,6 +3,21 @@
>  
>  *** Changes since GDB 10
>  
> +* GDB now supports general memory tagging functionality if the underlying
> +  architecture supports the proper primitives and hooks.  Currently this is
> +  enabled only for AArch64 MTE.
> +
> +  This includes:
> +
> +  - Additional information when the inferior crashes with a SIGSEGV caused by
> +    a memory tag violation.
> +
> +  - A new modifier 'm' for the "x" command, which displays allocation tags for a
> +    particular memory range.
> +
> +  - Display of memory tag mismatches by "print", for addresses and
> +    pointers, if memory tagging is supported by the architecture.

You might also want to mention the options added by your previous patch,
about memory-tag-violations.

Simon