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author | John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus> | 1991-12-07 15:52:36 +0000 |
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committer | John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus> | 1991-12-07 15:52:36 +0000 |
commit | fbda4193fd5ef6f7608bb8591ccad1b6e0222fe0 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/gdb/WHATS.NEW b/gdb/WHATS.NEW index 71ba79d..1f8200b 100755 --- a/gdb/WHATS.NEW +++ b/gdb/WHATS.NEW @@ -1,6 +1,58 @@ What has changed since GDB-3.5? (Organized release by release) +*** Changes in GDB-4.3: + + * New machines supported (host and target) + +SCO Unix on i386 IBM PC clones i386-sco-sysv or i386sco +Amiga 3000 running Amix m68k-cbm-svr4 or amix +NCR 3000 386 running SVR4 i386-ncr-svr4 or ncr3000 +Motorola Delta 88000 running Sys V m88k-motorola-sysv or delta88 + +There is no core file support on SCO Unix. + + * Preliminary ELF and DWARF support + +GDB can read ELF object files on System V Release 4, and can handle +debugging records for C, in DWARF format, in ELF files. This support +is preliminary. If you bring up GDB on another SVR4 system, please +send mail to bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu to let us know what changes were +reqired (if any). + + * Bugs fixed + +The `stepi' bug that many of you noticed has been squashed. +Many bugs in C++ have been handled. Many more remain to be handled. +See the various ChangeLog files (primarily in gdb and bfd) for details. + + * State of the MIPS world (in case you wondered): + +GDB can understand the symbol tables emitted by the compilers +supplied by most vendors of MIPS-based machines, including DEC. These +symbol tables are in a format that essentially nobody else uses. + +Some versions of gcc come with an assembler post-processor called +mips-tfile. This program is required if you want to do source-level +debugging of gcc-compiled programs. I believe FSF does not ship +mips-tfile with gcc version 1, but it will eventually come with gcc +version 2. + +Debugging of g++ output remains a problem. g++ version 1.xx does not +really support it at all. (If you're lucky, you should be able to get +line numbers and stack traces to work, but no parameters or local +variables.) With some work it should be possible to improve the +situation somewhat. + +When gcc version 2 is released, you will have somewhat better luck. +However, even then you will get confusing results for inheritance and +methods. + +We will eventually provide full debugging of g++ output on +DECstations. This will probably involve some kind of stabs-in-ecoff +encapulation, but the details have not been worked out yet. + + *** Changes in GDB-4.2: * Improved configuration |