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authorStan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com>1999-02-09 02:19:18 +0000
committerStan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com>1999-02-09 02:19:18 +0000
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* NEWS: Mention new X packet and PowerPC variant support.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog14
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2 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index f9f6292..9dfd06e 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon Feb 8 18:10:50 1999 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Mention new X packet and PowerPC variant support.
+
1999-02-08 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
* configure.host: Add support for StrongARM host.
@@ -5,9 +9,9 @@
Mon Feb 8 12:05:05 1999 David Taylor <taylor@texas.cygnus.com>
- * dsrec.c (make_srec): cast targ_addr to int in call to sprintf
+ * dsrec.c (make_srec): Cast targ_addr to int in call to sprintf
otherwise on big endian machine with a bfd_vma of 64 bits,
- *everything* gets loaded at location 0. (PR 18929)
+ *everything* gets loaded at location 0.
Mon Jan 4 10:05:43 1999 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@cygnus.com>
@@ -97,9 +101,9 @@ Tue Feb 2 17:36:29 1999 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com>
1999-02-01 Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
- Allow PPC users to select which PPC/RS6000 variant they're debugging
- at run-time. At the moment, the only thing this affects is the
- set of registers visible.
+ Allow PPC users to select which PPC/RS6000 variant they're
+ debugging at run-time. At the moment, the only thing this affects
+ is the set of registers visible.
* config/rs6000/tm-rs6000.h (REGISTER_NAME): Define this as a call
to the function rs6000_register_name.
(rs6000_register_name): Include extern decl.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index e4c02d9..08f48ae 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ M68K Linux m68*-*-linux*
Fujitsu FR30 fr30-*-elf*
Mitsubishi D30V d30v-*-*
+* PowerPC Variants
+
+PowerPC configurations of GDB now support `set processor' to control
+the register set in use. Available processor types include
+rs6000, 403, 403GC, 505, 601, 602, 603, 604, 750, and 860.
+
* Readline 2.2
GDB now uses readline 2.2.
@@ -44,6 +50,11 @@ it, build with --enable-tui.
* GDB Remote protocol
+A new protocol packet 'X' that writes binary data is now available.
+Default behavior is to try 'X', then drop back to 'M' if the stub
+fails to respond. The settable variable `remotebinarydownload'
+allows explicit control over the use of 'X'.
+
For 64 bit targets, the memory packets ("M" and "m") can now contain a
full 64 bit address. The class-obscure gdb command:
set targetaddresssize 32