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| author | Doug Evans <dje@google.com> | 2009-08-20 18:02:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Doug Evans <dje@google.com> | 2009-08-20 18:02:48 +0000 |
| commit | 4efc6507960ac76505ebb1be9886f207ceb46c3a (patch) | |
| tree | af68d7cb89746890d09bd44080fe6816ca12bb1c /gdb/NEWS | |
| parent | c469dcaa811e4c7d781f6ba9e9dd25fab234604f (diff) | |
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Add interface for JIT code generation.
* NEWS: Announce JIT interface.
* Makefile.in (SFILES): Add jit.c.
(HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add jit.h.
(COMMON_OBS): Add jit.o.
* jit.c: New file.
* jit.h: New file.
* breakpoint.h (enum bptype): Add bp_jit_event to enum.
* breakpoint.c:
(update_breakpoints_after_exec): Delete jit breakpoints after exec.
(bpstat_what): Update event table for bp_jit_event.
(print_it_typical): Added case for bp_jit_event.
(print_one_breakpoint_location): Added case for bp_jit_event.
(allocate_bp_location): Added case for bp_jit_event.
(mention): Added case for bp_jit_event.
(delete_command): Added case for bp_jit_event.
(breakpoint_re_set_one): Added case for bp_jit_event.
(breakpoint_re_set): Added call to jit_inferior_created_hook.
(create_jit_event_breakpoint): New.
* infrun.c (handle_inferior_event): Add handler for jit event.
(follow_exec): Add call to jit_inferior_created_hook.
* doc/gdb.texinfo: Add chapter on JIT interface.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/NEWS')
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@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ *** Changes since GDB 6.8 +* GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation. Applications that +dynamically generate code can create symbol files in memory and register +them with GDB. For users, the feature should work transparently, and +for JIT developers, the interface is documented in the GDB manual in the +"JIT Compilation Interface" chapter. + * Tracepoints may now be conditional. The syntax is as for breakpoints; either an "if" clause appended to the "trace" command, or the "condition" command is available. GDB sends the condition to |