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authorStan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com>1999-02-06 00:48:21 +0000
committerStan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com>1999-02-06 00:48:21 +0000
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* NEWS: Add mentions of various new things.
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* New native configurations
+HP-UX 10.20 hppa*-*-hpux10.20
+HP-UX 11.x hppa*-*-hpux11.0*
M68K Linux m68*-*-linux*
* New targets
@@ -12,6 +14,34 @@ M68K Linux m68*-*-linux*
Fujitsu FR30 fr30-*-elf*
Mitsubishi D30V d30v-*-*
+* Readline 2.2
+
+GDB now uses readline 2.2.
+
+* HP-UX Support
+
+Thanks to a major code donation from HP, GDB now has much more
+extensive support for HP-UX. Added features include shared library
+support, kernel threads and hardware watchpoints for 11.00, support
+for HP's ANSI C and C++ compilers, and compatibility mode for xdb
+commands.
+
+* Catchpoints
+
+HP's donation includes the new concept of catchpoints, which is a
+generalization of the old catch command. On HP-UX, it is now possible
+to catch exec, fork, and vfork, as well as library loading.
+
+* Debugging Across Forks
+
+On HP-UX, you can choose which process to debug when a fork() happens
+in the inferior.
+
+* TUI
+
+HP has donated a curses-based terminal user interface (TUI). To get
+it, build with --enable-tui.
+
* GDB Remote protocol
For 64 bit targets, the memory packets ("M" and "m") can now contain a