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

Simon Marchi
2015-08-27T13:34:00Z

On 15-08-26 10:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 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.

Right, thanks. Pushed with second sentence removed.

From fd2ae5d6a3a5c4007be45f9b2f325955ac316f36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:30:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits addressable memory support in NEWS

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/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
gdb/NEWS | 3 +++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index d1b9ac9..cf55e14 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2015-08-27 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Document support for non-8-bits addressable memory.
+
2015-08-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>

* configure.ac: Remove AC_TYPE_SIGNAL call.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 49c4a11..5918f14 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ 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.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.10

* Support for process record-replay and reverse debugging on aarch64*-linux*
--
2.1.4