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authorDon Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com>2015-09-11 11:06:03 -0700
committerDon Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com>2015-09-11 11:12:47 -0700
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Extended-remote exec documentation
This patch adds documentation of support for exec events on extended-remote Linux targets. gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS: Announce new remote packets for the exec-events feature and the exec-events feature and associated commands. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * gdb.texinfo (Remote Configuration): Add exec event feature to table of packet settings. (Stop Reply Packets): Add exec events to the list of stop reasons. (General Query Packets): Add exec events to tables of 'gdbfeatures' and 'stub features' supported in the qSupported packet, as well as to the list containing stub feature details.
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* Support for reading/writing memory and extracting values on architectures
whose memory is addressable in units of any integral multiple of 8 bits.
+* New remote packets
+
+exec stop reason
+ Indicates that an exec system call was executed.
+
+exec-events feature in qSupported
+ The qSupported packet allows GDB to request support for exec
+ events using the new 'gdbfeature' exec-event, and the qSupported
+ response can contain the corresponding 'stubfeature'. Set and
+ show commands can be used to display whether these features are enabled.
+
+* Extended-remote exec events
+
+ ** GDB now has support for exec events on extended-remote Linux targets.
+ For such targets with Linux kernels 2.5.46 and later, this enables
+ follow-exec-mode and exec catchpoints.
+
+set remote exec-event-feature-packet
+show remote exec-event-feature-packet
+ Set/show the use of the remote exec event feature.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.10
* Support for process record-replay and reverse debugging on aarch64*-linux*