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@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ namespace into which the library was loaded, if more than one namespace is active. +* New built-in convenience variables $_active_linker_namespaces and + $_current_linker_namespace. These show the number of active linkage + namespaces, and the namespace to which the current location belongs to. + In systems that don't support linkage namespaces, these always return 1 + and [[0]] respectively. + + * Add record full support for rv64gc architectures + * New commands maintenance check psymtabs @@ -54,6 +62,11 @@ show riscv numeric-register-names (e.g 'x1') or their abi names (e.g. 'ra'). Defaults to 'off', matching the old behaviour (abi names). +info linker-namespaces +info linker-namespaces [[N]] + Print information about the given linker namespace (identified as N), + or about all the namespaces if no argument is given. + * Changed commands info sharedlibrary @@ -61,6 +74,26 @@ info sharedlibrary command are now for the full memory range allocated to the shared library. +* GDB-internal Thread Local Storage (TLS) support + + ** Linux targets for the x86_64, aarch64, ppc64, s390x, and riscv + architectures now have GDB-internal support for TLS address + lookup in addition to that traditionally provided by the + libthread_db library. This internal support works for programs + linked against either the GLIBC or MUSL C libraries. For + programs linked against MUSL, this new internal support provides + new debug functionality, allowing access to TLS variables, due to + the fact that MUSL does not implement the libthread_db library. + Internal TLS support is also useful in cross-debugging + situations, debugging statically linked binaries, and debugging + programs linked against GLIBC 2.33 and earlier, but which are not + linked against libpthread. + + ** The command 'maint set force-internal-tls-address-lookup on' may + be used to force the internal TLS lookup mechanisms to be used. + Otherwise, TLS lookup via libthread_db will still be preferred, + when available. + * Python API ** New class gdb.Color for dealing with colors. |