[PATCH V8] amd64-mpx: initialize BND register before performing inferior calls.

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Tue Feb 21 17:06:00 GMT 2017


> From: Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:40:38 +0100
> 
> +On the other hand you can also examine the influence of the bound register in
> +the execution of the function, i.e. verify if modifying bounds would cause bound
                                  ^^^^
Either "i.e.,", with a comma, or "i.e.@:", so that TeX doesn't decide
this ends a sentence.

> +viaolations and how.  You can achieve this by stoppying the execution of the
   ^^^^^^^^^^^                                   ^^^^^^^^^
Typos.

> +called function at its prologue and setting the bnd registers continuing then
                                                   ^^^
Wrong letter-case? a typo?

> +the execution. See the example below:
                ^^
Two spaces here, please.

> +At this last step the value of bnd0 can be changed for investigation of bound
> +violations caused along the execution of the call.  In order to know how to
> +set the bnd registers or bound table for the call consult the ABI.
           ^^^
"bound"?

Thanks.



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