[PATCH v3 21/24] Extend "x" and "print" commands to support memory tagging

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Mon Nov 9 17:14:54 GMT 2020


> Date: Mon,  9 Nov 2020 14:04:32 -0300
> From: Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Cc: david.spickett@linaro.org
> 
> Suppose we have a pointer "p" with value 0x1234 (logical tag 0x0) and that we
> have an allocation tag of 0x1 for that particular area of memory. This is the
> expected output:
> 
> (gdb) p/x p
> Logical tag (0x0) does not match the allocation tag (0x1).
> $1 = 0x1234

If the tags did match, GDB would have also printed the contents of the
memory pointed to by p, right?  At least with pointer to 'char *'
strings it would.  Does GDB still print the contents if the tags don't
match?  If it doesn't, it should say something like "Cannot access
memory at NNNN: logical tag doesn't match".


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