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@@ -6,6 +6,25 @@ * The 'set disassembler-options' command now supports specifying options for the ARC target. +* On GNU/Linux, by default GDB now starts programs associated with a + pseudo-terminal slave device created and managed by GDB, instead of + having the inferior use the same terminal as GDB directly. GDB + takes care of forwarding input and output to and from GDB's terminal + at appropriate times, so this is largely transparent. + + In addition, by default, Ctrl-C no longer stops the program with + SIGINT. Instead you'll see for example: + + Thread 1 "main" stopped. + + With these changes it is now possible to interrupt programs that + block or ignore the SIGINT signal (with e.g., the sigprocmask + function), or use the sigwait function to wait for SIGINT signal. + + You can use the "tty /dev/tty" command to restore the previous + behavior of spawning programs associated with the same terminal as + GDB. + * GDB now supports general memory tagging functionality if the underlying architecture supports the proper primitives and hooks. Currently this is enabled only for AArch64 MTE. @@ -84,6 +103,10 @@ set debug event-loop show debug event-loop Control the display of debug output about GDB's event loop. +set debug managed-tty +show debug managed-tty + Control the display of debug output about GDB-managed terminals. + set print memory-tag-violations show print memory-tag-violations Control whether to display additional information about memory tag violations |