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@@ -11,6 +11,40 @@ Xilinx MicroBlaze microblaze-*-* Xilinx MicroBlaze microblaze +* Multi-program debugging. + + GDB now has support for multi-program (a.k.a. multi-executable or + multi-exec) debugging. This allows for debugging multiple inferiors + simultaneously each running a different program under the same GDB + session. See "Debugging Multiple Inferiors and Programs" in the + manual for more information. This implied some user visible changes + in the multi-inferior support. For example, "info inferiors" now + lists inferiors that are not running yet or that have exited + already. See also "New commands" and "New options" below. + +* New commands (for set/show, see "New options" below) + +add-inferior [-copies <N>] [-exec <FILENAME>] + Add a new inferior. + +clone-inferior [-copies <N>] [ID] + Make a new inferior ready to execute the same program another + inferior has loaded. + +remove-inferior ID + Remove an inferior. + +maint info program-spaces + List the program spaces loaded into GDB. + +* New options + +set follow-exec-mode new|same +show follow-exec-mode + Control whether GDB reuses the same inferior across an exec call or + creates a new one. This is useful to be able to restart the old + executable after the inferior having done an exec call. + *** Changes in GDB 7.0 * GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation. Applications that |