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authorCraig Silverstein <csilvers@google.com>2008-04-20 00:03:25 +0000
committerCraig Silverstein <csilvers@google.com>2008-04-20 00:03:25 +0000
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* NEWS: Add information on compressed debug sections.
* doc/gdb.texinfo (Requirements): Add an optional requirement on zlib. * doc/gdbint.texinfo (Debugging File Formats): Add new subsection for Compressed DWARF 2.
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*** Changes since GDB 6.8
+* GDB can now read compressed debug sections, as produced by GNU gold
+with the --compress-debug-sections=zlib flag.
+
* Watchpoints can now be set on unreadable memory locations, e.g. addresses
which will be allocated using malloc later in program execution.
* The qXfer:libraries:read remote procotol packet now allows passing a
- list of section offsets.
+list of section offsets.
* New features in the GDB remote stub, gdbserver