I think it would be a good idea to document that gdb now has (basic)
support to read/write memory on architectures with non-8-bits memory.
Hopefully somebody will see it and say "Hey! We can now (more easily)
port GDB to our strange DSP that has 32-bits-addressable memory!" and do
it.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Document support for non-8-bits addressable memory.
+2015-08-27 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Document support for non-8-bits addressable memory.
+
+2015-08-27 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Document support for non-8-bits addressable memory.
+
2015-08-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* configure.ac: Remove AC_TYPE_SIGNAL call.
target mon2000 mon2000 ROM monitor
target ppcbug PPCBUG ROM monitor for PowerPC
+* Support for reading/writing memory and extracting values on architectures
+ with non-8-bits-addressable memory.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.10
* Support for process record-replay and reverse debugging on aarch64*-linux*