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authorJohn Gilmore <gnu@cygnus>1991-12-07 22:41:16 +0000
committerJohn Gilmore <gnu@cygnus>1991-12-07 22:41:16 +0000
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Desupport i386sco, and mention the new readline.
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* New machines supported (host and target)
-SCO Unix on i386 IBM PC clones i386-sco-sysv or i386sco
Amiga 3000 running Amix m68k-cbm-svr4 or amix
NCR 3000 386 running SVR4 i386-ncr-svr4 or ncr3000
Motorola Delta 88000 running Sys V m88k-motorola-sysv or delta88
-There is no core file support on SCO Unix.
+ * Almost SCO Unix support
+
+We had hoped to support:
+SCO Unix on i386 IBM PC clones i386-sco-sysv or i386sco
+(except for core file support), but we discovered very late in the release
+that it has problems with process groups that render gdb unusable. Sorry
+about that. I encourage people to fix it and post the fixes.
* Preliminary ELF and DWARF support
@@ -20,6 +25,12 @@ 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
+
+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 ?).
+
* Bugs fixed
The `stepi' bug that many of you noticed has been squashed.