Update for gdb-4.8

1 files changed, 79 insertions, 108 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 10cbfe6..a63b40e 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,15 +3,16 @@
 
 *** Changes in GDB-4.8:
 
- * New features
+ * HP Precision Architecture supported
 
-GDB now supports array constants that can be used in expressions typed in by
-the user.  The syntax is `{element, element, ...}'.  Ie: you can now type
-`print {1, 2, 3}', and it will build up an array.
+GDB now supports HP PA-RISC machines running HPUX.  A preliminary
+version of this support was available as a set of patches from the
+University of Utah.  GDB does not support debugging of programs
+compiled with the HP compiler, because HP will not document their file
+format.  Instead, you must use GCC (version 2.3.3 or later) and PA-GAS
+(as available from jaguar.cs.utah.edu:/dist/pa-gas.u4.tar.Z).
 
-There is also a new directory `gdb/sparclite' that contains a program that can
-be run on a Fujitsu SPARClite processor to demonstrate how the sparc-stub
-remote stub works.
+Many problems in the preliminary version have been fixed.
 
  * Faster and better demangling
 
@@ -19,7 +20,8 @@ We have improved template demangling and fixed numerous bugs in the GNU style
 demangler.  It can now handle type modifiers such as `static' or `const'.  Wide
 character types (wchar_t) are now supported.  Demangling of each symbol is now
 only done once, and is cached when the symbol table for a file is read in.
-This results in a moderate increase in memory usage, but a fantastic speedup in
+This results in a small increase in memory usage for C programs, a moderate
+increase in memory usage for C++ programs, and a fantastic speedup in
 symbol lookups.
 
 `Cfront' style demangling still doesn't work with AT&T cfront.  It was written
@@ -28,45 +30,50 @@ compiler does not actually implement.
 
  * Improved configure script
 
-The `configure' script will now attempt to guess your system type if you don't
-supply a host system type.  WE CAN GIVE NO GUARANTEES ABOUT THE VALIDITY OF THE
-GUESSES MADE BY THIS METHOD.  The old scheme of supplying a host system triplet
-is greatly preferable over using this.  All the magic is done in the new
-`config.guess' script.  Examine it for details.
+The `configure' script will now attempt to guess your system type if
+you don't supply a host system type.  The old scheme of supplying a
+host system triplet is preferable over using this.  All the magic is
+done in the new `config.guess' script.  Examine it for details.
 
 We have also brought our configure script much more in line with the FSF's
 version.  It now supports the --with-xxx options.  In particular,
-`--with-minimal-bfd' is of interest to those people who want a minimal BFD
-that only supports target file formats.
-
-We have also cleaned up the issue with the rpc and ptrace header files for
-VxWorks that was discovered at the last minute during the 4.7 release.  You
-should now be able to build a VxWorks GDB.
-
- * Documentation
+`--with-minimal-bfd' can be used to make the GDB binary image smaller.
+The resulting GDB will not be able to read arbitrary object file formats --
+only the format ``expected'' to be used on the configured target system.
+We hope to make this the default in a future release.
+
+ * Documentation improvements
+
+There's new internal documentation on how to modify GDB, and how to
+produce clean changes to the code.  We implore people to read it
+before submitting changes.
+
+The GDB manual uses new, sexy Texinfo conditionals, rather than arcane
+M4 macros.  The new texinfo.tex is provided in this release.  Pre-built
+`info' files are also provided.  To build `info' files from scratch,
+you will need the latest `makeinfo' release, which will be available in
+a future texinfo-X.Y release.
+
+*NOTE*  The new texinfo.tex can cause old versions of TeX to hang.
+We're not sure exactly which versions have this problem, but it has
+been seen in 3.0.  We highly recommend upgrading to TeX version 3.141
+or better.  If that isn't possible, there is a patch in
+`texinfo/tex3patch' that will modify `texinfo/texinfo.tex' to work
+around this problem.
 
-There's lots of new internal documentation on how to modify GDB, and produce
-clean changes to the code.  We implore people to look at this before submitting
-changes.
-
-The GDB manual uses new, sexy Texinfo conditionals, rather than the arcane M4
-macros.  This requires the use of the new Texinfo program, which is available
-from the same place that you got this copy of GDB.
+ * New features
 
-*NOTE*  The new Texinfo program produces TeX output that can cause old versions
-of TeX to hang.  We're not sure exactly which versions have this problem, but
-it has been seen in 3.0.  We highly recommend upgrading to TeX version 3.141 or
-better.  If that isn't possible, there is a patch in `texinfo/tex3patch' that
-will modify `texinfo/texinfo.tex' to work around this problem.
+GDB now supports array constants that can be used in expressions typed in by
+the user.  The syntax is `{element, element, ...}'.  Ie: you can now type
+`print {1, 2, 3}', and it will build up an array in memory malloc'd in
+the target program.
 
- * Mmalloc now licensed under the GNU Library General Public License
+The new directory `gdb/sparclite' contains a program that demonstrates
+how the sparc-stub.c remote stub runs on a Fujitsu SPARClite processor.
 
  * New native hosts supported
 
 HP/PA-RISC under HPUX using GNU tools	hppa1.1-hp-hpux
-
-386 CPUs running SCO Unix		i386-unknown-scosysv322  or  sco
-    (core file support added)
 386 CPUs running SCO Unix 3.2v4		i386-unknown-sco3.2v4
 
  * New targets supported
@@ -75,89 +82,53 @@ AMD 29k family via UDI			a29k-amd-udi  or  udi29k
 
  * New file formats supported
 
-BFD now has minimal support for reading HP/PA-RISC executables (SOM?), and
-HPUX core files.  We can't write them yet.
+BFD now supports reading HP/PA-RISC executables (SOM file format?),
+HPUX core files, and SCO 3.2v2 core files.
 
- * New commands
+ * Major bug fixes
 
-We now accept --silent as an alias for --quiet.
+Attaching to processes now works again; thanks for the many bug reports.
 
- * Major bug fixes
+We have also stomped on a bunch of core dumps caused by
+printf_filtered("%s") problems.
 
-This version fixes the attach problem that many of you reported.  We have
-also stomped on a bunch more printf_filtered("%s") problems.
+We eliminated a copyright problem on the rpc and ptrace header files
+for VxWorks, which was discovered at the last minute during the 4.7
+release.  You should now be able to build a VxWorks GDB.
 
-You can also now ^C a gdb that is attached to a process.  This will cause the
-attached process to stop, and give control back to GDB.
+You can now interrupt gdb while an attached process is running.  This
+will cause the attached process to stop, and give control back to GDB.
 
-We also fixed a lot of problems associated with either not closing file
-descriptors, or using too many.  This was especially a problem for programs
-that used many (~100) shared libraries.
+We fixed problems caused by using too many file descriptors
+for reading symbols from object files and libraries.  This was
+especially a problem for programs that used many (~100) shared
+libraries.
 
+The `step' command now only enters a subroutine if there is line number
+information for the subroutine.  Otherwise it acts like the `next'
+command.  Previously, `step' would enter subroutines if there was
+any debugging information about the routine.  This avoids problems
+when using `cc -g1' on MIPS machines.
 
- * Library changes
+ * Internal improvements
 
- * Configuration
+GDB's internal interfaces have been improved to make it easier to support
+debugging of multiple languages in the future.
 
- * New hosts supported
+GDB now uses a common structure for symbol information internally.
+Minimal symbols (derived from linkage symbols in object files), partial
+symbols (from a quick scan of debug information), and full symbols
+contain a common subset of information, making it easier to write
+shared code that handles any of them.
+
+ * New command line options
+
+We now accept --silent as an alias for --quiet.
 
+ * Mmalloc licensing
 
-PA/HPUX support (cleaned up), uses unwind info, needs gcc/gas...
-HP300 native support (???)
-Vax Ultrix native (was already there)
-step only goes into a subr if there is line # info present
-rs6000 bug fixes...
-Language interfaces
-VxWorks/rpc problems resolved
-symbols/psymbols/msymbols combined
-Lotsa host/native/target stuff cleaned up
-
-Don Allen
-Gerald Baumgartner
-Michael Ben-Gershon
-Art Berggreen
-Karl Berry
-Per Bothner
-Ralph Campbell
-John Carr
-Steve Chamberlain
-Lee W. Cooprider
-John Eaton
-Paul Eggert
-John M. Farell
-Fred Fish
-Eddie Fung
-John Gilmore
-Carl Greco
-Stu Grossman
-Robert R. Henry
-Nobuyuki Hikichi
-Andy Jackson
-Mark Jungerman
-Brian Kernighan
-Alexander Klaiber
-Jeffrey Law
-Marty Leisner
-Ulf Linde
-Roland H. Pesch
-K. Richard Pixley
-Ken Raeburn
-Dennis Ritchie
-Rob Ryan
-Peter Schauer
-Lynn D. Shumaker
-Richard Stallman
-Allan Steel
-Johanthan Stone
-Ian Lance Taylor
-Michael Tiemann
-Minh Tran-Le 
-Martin Walker
-
-david d `zoo' zuhn
-karl@hq.ileaf.com
-rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu.
-sato@sm.sony.co.jp.
+The memory-mapped-malloc library is now licensed under the GNU Library
+General Public License.
 
 *** Changes in GDB-4.7: