From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28232 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2015 02:38:04 -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 28214 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2015 02:38:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mtaout25.012.net.il Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il (HELO mtaout25.012.net.il) (80.179.55.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 02:38:00 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NTP00F00Z1VZK00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:34:30 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NTP00CRIZ5HLE30@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:34:30 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 02:38:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS In-reply-to: <1440620235-24006-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> To: Simon Marchi Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, simon.marchi@ericsson.com Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83h9nl5ud6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1440620235-24006-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00773.txt.bz2 > From: Simon Marchi > CC: Simon Marchi > 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.