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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More NEWS for 7.2
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838w43qpbd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6C8E1F.1010104@codesourcery.com>

> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:51:27 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
> 
> This patch adds notes for overlooked user-visible changes in 7.2.  The 
> diff is for the 7.2 branch, but I'll paste into trunk as well, once any 
> wording glitches have been sorted out.  Please don't make me define all 
> the terms. :-)
> 
> Stan
> 
> 2010-08-18  Stan Shebs  <stan@codesourcery.com>
> 
>     * NEWS: Mention some additional changes.

Thanks.  I have only one request:

> + set may-write-registers on|off
> + set may-write-memory on|off
> + set may-insert-breakpoints on|off
> + set may-insert-tracepoints on|off
> + set may-insert-fast-tracepoints on|off
> + set may-interrupt on|off
> +   Set individual permissions for different kinds of GDB effects on the
> +   target.  Note that some of these settings can have undesirable or
> +   surprising consequences.

Can we add a sentence saying what happens with disallowed operations?
Do they fail (silently or vociferously)? do they crash GDB? something
else?

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19  1:51 Stan Shebs
2010-08-19  3:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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