[PATCH] news: Describe AArch64-specific changes
Wilco Dijkstra
Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com
Wed Jun 17 11:35:23 GMT 2026
Hi Yury,
> +* On AArch64 targets that support Guarded Control Stack extension all GCS
> + operations (including status, write on shadow stack, and push to shadow
> + stack) are locked when GCS is enabled unless OPTIONAL GCS policy is used.
What does "are locked" mean? Does it mean enabled/checked or the instructions trap?
> +* On AArch64 targets, malloc-family functions are implemented as GNU indirect
> + functions (ifuncs).
Is this news? It's not user visible, neither does it do anything new or different...
> +* The configure script will no longer use the --enable-memory-tagging flag.
> + The corresponding AArch64-specific functionality that was previously
> + activated by this flag was removed as well.
Maybe "The --enable-memory-tagging configure option has been removed."?
Cheers,
Wilco
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