From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1471 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2013 09:37:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 1462 invoked by uid 89); 5 Sep 2013 09:37:14 -0000 Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il (HELO mtaout22.012.net.il) (80.179.55.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:37:14 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mtaout22.012.net.il Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MSN00100B2B1H00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:37:10 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MSN001XLC1Y2540@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:37:10 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:37:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 8/8] Add MPX feature description to GDB manual. In-reply-to: <1378373188-31144-9-git-send-email-walfred.tedeschi@intel.com> To: Walfred Tedeschi Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, walfred.tedeschi@intel.com Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <831u53d2ys.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1378373188-31144-1-git-send-email-walfred.tedeschi@intel.com> <1378373188-31144-9-git-send-email-walfred.tedeschi@intel.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00160.txt.bz2 > From: Walfred Tedeschi > Cc: Walfred Tedeschi > 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.