[PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS

Simon Marchi
2015-08-26T20:17:24Z

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*
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