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

Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-02-08T20:44:31Z

On 2/5/21 2:06 AM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> 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.

Done now. Thanks!