gdb: Deprecate MPX commands.

This patch deprecates the MPX commands "show/set mpx bound".
Intel listed Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) as removed
in 2019.  Following gcc v9.1, the linux kernel v5.6 and glibc v2.35,
deprecate MPX in GDB.
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Schimpe, Christina 2024-03-05 15:14:53 +00:00
parent 272acb42cf
commit 7650ea3890
3 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions

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*** Changes since GDB 14
* The MPX commands "show/set mpx bound" have been deprecated, as Intel
listed MPX as removed in 2019.
* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires a C++17 compiler.
For example, GCC 9 or later.

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@ -26652,6 +26652,9 @@ whose bounds are to be changed, @var{lbound} and @var{ubound} are new values
for lower and upper bounds respectively.
@end table
Both commands are deprecated and will be removed in future versions of
@value{GDBN}. MPX itself was listed as removed by Intel in 2019.
When you call an inferior function on an Intel MPX enabled program,
GDB sets the inferior's bound registers to the init (disabled) state
before calling the function. As a consequence, bounds checks for the

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@ -9132,17 +9132,19 @@ is \"default\"."),
/* Add "bound" command for the show mpx commands list. */
add_cmd ("bound", no_class, i386_mpx_info_bounds,
cmd_list_element *c = add_cmd ("bound", no_class, i386_mpx_info_bounds,
"Show the memory bounds for a given array/pointer storage\
in the bound table.",
&mpx_show_cmdlist);
deprecate_cmd (c, nullptr);
/* Add "bound" command for the set mpx commands list. */
add_cmd ("bound", no_class, i386_mpx_set_bounds,
c = add_cmd ("bound", no_class, i386_mpx_set_bounds,
"Set the memory bounds for a given array/pointer storage\
in the bound table.",
&mpx_set_cmdlist);
deprecate_cmd (c, nullptr);
gdbarch_register_osabi (bfd_arch_i386, 0, GDB_OSABI_SVR4,
i386_svr4_init_abi);