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author | Don Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com> | 2015-09-11 11:06:03 -0700 |
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committer | Don Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com> | 2015-09-11 11:12:47 -0700 |
commit | b459a59be3a9b92a27b71790f5e3f3be38595cb3 (patch) | |
tree | 2c5f7cd841495e5b1a8206d8a279fc9f31c91199 /gdb/NEWS | |
parent | 2fd33e94480fc2c662d1ad28f83e522cc5dbdc2e (diff) | |
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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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@@ -55,6 +55,27 @@ show remote multiprocess-extensions-packet * 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* |