From aaebe6aa08f09baed68e085da9a8ddaf3ae96227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Wielaard Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 16:12:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Mention exp-sgcheck removal in NEWS. --- NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 04effd80d4..5179c7f894 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ support for X86/macOS 10.13, AMD64/macOS 10.13 and nanoMIPS/Linux. valgrind will now produce a warning to say the suppression entry will not work, and suggest the needed change. +* exp-sgcheck: + + - The exprimental Stack and Global Array Checking tool has been removed. + It only ever worked on x86 and amd64, and even on those it had a + high false positive rate and was slow. An alternative for detecting + stack and global array overruns is using the AddressSanitizer (ASAN) + facility of the GCC and llvm compilers which require you to rebuild + your code with -fsanitize=address. + * ==================== OTHER CHANGES ==================== * New and modified GDB server monitor features: -- 2.47.2