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Re: ping: [patch] aarch64: PR 19806: watchpoints: false negatives + PR 20207 contiguous ones


> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:49:39 +0100
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index 25c404bfc37..38043c4ff2e 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ SH-5/SH64 ELF			sh64-*-elf*, SH-5/SH64 support in sh*
>  SH-5/SH64 running GNU/Linux	SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-linux*
>  SH-5/SH64 running OpenBSD 	SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-openbsd*
>  
> +* Aarch64/Linux hardware watchpoints improvements
> +
> +  Hardware watchpoints on unaligned addresses are now properly
> +  supported when running Linux kernel 4.10 or higher: read and access
> +  watchpoints are no longer spuriously missed, and all watchpoints
> +  lengths between 1 and 8 bytes are supported.  On older kernels,
> +  watchpoints set on unaligned addresses are no longer missed, with
> +  the tradeoff that there is a possibility of false hits being
> +  reported.

I wonder whether we need this NEWS entry.  We don't normally call out
bugfixes there, do we?

Thanks.


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