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author | Stu Grossman <grossman@cygnus> | 1992-02-01 01:31:31 +0000 |
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committer | Stu Grossman <grossman@cygnus> | 1992-02-01 01:31:31 +0000 |
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diff --git a/gdb/WHATS.NEW b/gdb/WHATS.NEW index 392b181..bc2dfea 100755 --- a/gdb/WHATS.NEW +++ b/gdb/WHATS.NEW @@ -8,11 +8,31 @@ SCO Unix on i386 IBM PC clones i386-sco-sysv or i386sco (except core files) +BSD Reno on Vaxen vax-dec-bsd +Ultrix on Vaxen vax-dec-ultrix + * New machines supported (target) AMD 29000 embedded, using EBMON a29k-none-none - * Improved ELF and DWARF support + * C++ stuff + +Improvements have been made in the way GDB handles C++ references. The +demangler has also been improved, and now deals with symbols mangled as +per the Annotated C++ Reference Guide. GDB also now handles stabs embedded in +MIPS symbol tables (which was the only way to get C++ debugging info into MIPS +binaries). This will become useful in a future version of G++. + + * New features for SVR4 + +The `info process' command will print out process information. + +Better shared library support for SVR4 and SunOS. + + Info proc, improved SVR4, shared libs + + +***FIXME * Improved ELF and DWARF support GDB can read ELF object files on System V Release 4, and can handle debugging records for C, in DWARF format, in ELF files. This support @@ -20,21 +40,26 @@ is preliminary. If you bring up GDB on another SVR4 system, please send mail to bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu to let us know what changes were reqired (if any). - * New Readline + * New Getopt -GDB now uses the latest `readline' library. One user-visible change -is that two tabs will list possible command completions, which previously -required typing M-? (meta-question mark, or ESC ?). +GDB is now using the latest `getopt' routines from the FSF. This version +now accepts the -- prefix for options with long names. Note that gdb will +continue to accept the old format as well. Also, various single letter +abbreviations for options have been explicity added to the option table so that +they won't get overshadowed in the future by other options that begin with the +same letter. - * Bugs fixed +***FIXME * Bugs fixed The `stepi' bug that many of you noticed has been squashed. Many bugs in C++ have been handled. Many more remain to be handled. See the various ChangeLog files (primarily in gdb and bfd) for details. - * State of the MIPS world (in case you wondered): +***FIXME * State of the MIPS world (in case you wondered): blah blah blah..................................... +=============================================================================== + *** Changes in GDB-4.3: |