From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Check memory accesses
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwt64e2je.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611092336.22512.vladimir@codesourcery.com> (message from Vladimir Prus on Thu, 9 Nov 2006 23:36:22 +0300)
> From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 23:36:22 +0300
>
> This patch makes gdb, when target memory map is available, optionally reject
> all memory accesses outside of regions in memory map. The rationale is that:
>
> 1. It's sometimes better to get error that have the write silently do
> nothing or read returning garbase.
>
> 2. For some targets, accesses to non-existent memory "wedge" them.
>
> Since memory maps are still rare, this behaviour is enabled only by a new
> command.
>
> OK?
This patch introduces a new user command, but doesn't include a patch
for the user manual. Please provide one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-09 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-09 20:36 Vladimir Prus
2006-11-09 21:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-11-15 12:24 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-11-15 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-21 16:51 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-11-21 17:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-21 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-19 0:05 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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