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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, walfred.tedeschi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 8/8] Add MPX feature description to GDB manual.
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831u53d2ys.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378373188-31144-9-git-send-email-walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>

> From: Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
> Cc: Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
> Date: Thu,  5 Sep 2013 11:26:28 +0200
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index ca8baea..fc58cc4 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -5464,3 +5464,5 @@ GDB now handles cross debugging.  If you are remotely debugging between
>  two different machines, type ``./configure host -target=targ''.
>  Host is the machine where GDB will run; targ is the machine
>  where the program that you are debugging will run.
> +
> + *  GDB now supports access to Intel(R) MPX registers on GNU/Linux.

This part is OK.

> +@samp{bnd0raw} through @samp{bnd3raw} for i386, amd64 and x32.  Hardware
> +representation of the bound registers effectively @samp{bnd0} through

What does "effectively" mean in this context?

> +@samp{bnd3}.  The bounds are unsigned effective addresses, and are

And what does "effective" mean here?

> +inclusive. The upper bounds are architecturally represented in 1's
            ^^
Two spaces are needed here.

> +User representation of the bound registers.  Upper bound value stores
> +the effective address of the bound, i.e. the one's complement of the

Same question about "effective".  Also, please insert either a comma
',' or @: after "i.e.", to make sure the second period is not rendered
by TeX as an end of a sentence.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-05  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05  9:26 [PATCH V4 0/8] Intel(R) MPX register support Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-05  9:26 ` [PATCH V4 4/8] MPX for amd64 Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-10 12:48   ` Mark Kettenis
2013-09-10 14:56     ` Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-12  8:53   ` Tedeschi, Walfred
2013-09-05  9:26 ` [PATCH V4 3/8] Add MPX support for i386 Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-05  9:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06  7:36     ` Tedeschi, Walfred
2013-09-05  9:26 ` [PATCH V4 1/8] Fix conditions in creating a bitfield Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-05  9:26 ` [PATCH V4 2/8] Add MPX registers XML files Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-05  9:26 ` [PATCH V4 7/8] Add MPX registers tests Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-05  9:26 ` [PATCH V4 8/8] Add MPX feature description to GDB manual Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-05  9:37   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-09-05  9:26 ` [PATCH V4 5/8] Add MPX support to gdbserver Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-05  9:26 ` [PATCH V4 6/8] Add pretty-printer for MPX bnd registers Walfred Tedeschi
2013-09-05  9:41 ` [PATCH V4 0/8] Intel(R) MPX register support Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <AC542571535E904D8E8ADAE745D60B191B18DB69@IRSMSX104.ger.corp.intel.com>
2013-09-09 16:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-25 11:51       ` Tedeschi, Walfred
2013-09-25 12:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-25 12:41           ` Tedeschi, Walfred
2013-09-25 15:37             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-25 12:47           ` Mark Kettenis

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