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| author | Luis Machado <luisgpm@br.ibm.com> | 2012-02-24 15:04:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Luis Machado <luisgpm@br.ibm.com> | 2012-02-24 15:04:58 +0000 |
| commit | 72895ff684a17c2516ea3b0e012afed626bfadad (patch) | |
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2012-02-24 Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
* NEWS: Mention target-side conditional breakpoint support,
new condition-evaluation breakpoint subcommand and remote
packet extensions.
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@@ -56,6 +56,28 @@ Renesas RL78 rl78-*-elf +* GDBserver supports evaluation of breakpoint conditions. When + support is advertised by GDBserver, GDB may be told to send the + breakpoint conditions in bytecode form to GDBserver. GDBserver + will only report the breakpoint trigger to GDB when its condition + evaluates to true. + +* New options + +set breakpoint condition-evaluation +show breakpoint condition-evaluation + Controls whether breakpoint conditions are evaluated by GDB ("gdb") or by + GDBserver ("target"). + This option can improve debugger efficiency depending on the speed of the + target. + +* New remote packets + + The z0/z1 breakpoint insertion packets have been extended to carry + a list of conditional expressions over to the remote stub depending on the + condition evaluation mode. The use of this extension can be controlled + via the "set remote conditional-breakpoints-packet" command. + *** Changes in GDB 7.4 * GDB now handles ambiguous linespecs more consistently; the existing |