Update NEWS for MPX support in the dynamic linker
Zamyatin, Igor
igor.zamyatin@intel.com
Mon Aug 11 22:22:00 GMT 2014
> You need a blank line before the new item. Two spaces between sentences.
> Don't mention dynamic linker internal function names, just the user-visible
> effects. How about this?
>
> * On x86, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
> with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all
> previous versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when
> making calls into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the
> new dynamic linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether
> or not it supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators
> might fail to handle the new instruction encodings. This is known
> to affect Valgrind versions prior to 3.9, and might affect other
> tools that do instruction emulation.
Thought it should be less detailed :) But I like this, the only thing is that MPX is x86_64 oriented and as HJ already mentioned support in dynamic linker added for x86_64 so I suggest to change first mentioning of x86 on x86_64.
Thanks,
Igor
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