David Spickett

About

David started his career at Imagination Technologies working on debuggers, primarily for MIPS. Doing software and firmware development to support new and legacy processors.

Later he joined Arm where he worked on the “Arm Compiler For Embedded” toolchain. New architecture support, disassembly libraries and continuous build systems.

Currently a Staff Engineer at Arm, he is assigned to Linaro to work on the LLVM project. Focusing on support for Arm Architectures in the LLVM project’s debugger, LLDB.

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Posts

• Type Tracking Using Arm Memory Tagging

  Monday, April 8, 2024

  Memory Tagging is for memory safety. At least, that is the intention. What if you ignore all the advice and use memory tags for your own data? In this article I will show you how to do that. It seems like a bad idea, but you might be surprised by the results.

• Top Byte Ignore For Fun and Memory Savings

  Wednesday, February 8, 2023

  In this article, David Spickett talks about how Top Byte Ignore works and how to use it. Read more here!

• LLDB 15 and the Mystery of the Non-Address Bits

  Thursday, September 8, 2022

  In this article David talks about the work Linaro has done on non-address bits in LLDB.

• Debugging Memory Tagging with LLDB 13

  Thursday, April 21, 2022

  In this blog David Spickett looks at Memory Tagging (MTE) and the debugging features Linaro has added to LLDB 13.