Re: [PATCH v5 24/25] Add NEWS entry.

Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-02-05T05:06:57Z

On 2021-01-27 3:21 p.m., Luis Machado via Gdb-patches wrote:
> Updates on v4:
>
> - Update command names.
>
> --
>
> Mention the new packets and memory tagging features.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> YYYY-MM-DD Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
>
> * NEWS: Mention memory tagging changes.
> ---
> gdb/NEWS | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index d2ed28857b..a4e08491ee 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -3,6 +3,21 @@
>
> *** Changes since GDB 10
>
> +* GDB now supports general memory tagging functionality if the underlying
> + architecture supports the proper primitives and hooks. Currently this is
> + enabled only for AArch64 MTE.
> +
> + This includes:
> +
> + - Additional information when the inferior crashes with a SIGSEGV caused by
> + a memory tag violation.
> +
> + - A new modifier 'm' for the "x" command, which displays allocation tags for a
> + particular memory range.
> +
> + - Display of memory tag mismatches by "print", for addresses and
> + pointers, if memory tagging is supported by the architecture.

You might also want to mention the options added by your previous patch,
about memory-tag-violations.

Simon