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

Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-27T02:38:04Z

> 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.