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authorTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>2012-11-26 19:23:56 +0000
committerTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>2012-11-26 19:23:56 +0000
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2012-11-26 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> * NEWS: Mention mini debuginfo feature. * minidebug.c: New file. * configure.ac: Check for lzma. * configure, config.in: Rebuild. * Makefile.in (LIBLZMA): New variable. (CLIBS): Include LIBLZMA. (SFILES): Mention minidebug.c. (COMMON_OBS): Mention minidebug.o. * symfile.c (read_symbols): New function. (syms_from_objfile, reread_symbols): Call it. * symfile.h (find_separate_debug_file_in_section): Declare. doc * gdb.texinfo (MiniDebugInfo): New node. (GDB Files): Update. testsuite * gdb.base/gnu-debugdata.exp: New file. * gdb.base/gnu-debugdata.c: New file. * lib/gdb.exp (gdb_file_cmd): Handle LZMA warning. (gdb_unload): Return 0 on success.
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** New optional parameter COUNT added to the "-data-write-memory-bytes"
command, to allow pattern filling of memory areas.
+* GDB now supports the "mini debuginfo" section, .gnu_debugdata.
+ You must have the LZMA library available when configuring GDB for this
+ feature to be enabled. For more information, see:
+ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.5
* GDB now supports x32 ABI. Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/>