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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 8d75ca3..44a6467 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +Sat Mar 28 15:19:48 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com> + + * NEWS: Update for 4.17 release. + Thu Mar 26 22:29:28 1998 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com> * tracepoint.c (trace_status_command): Recognize a boolean return @@ -1,15 +1,120 @@ What has changed in GDB? (Organized release by release) -*** Changes since GDB-4.16: +*** Changes in GDB-4.17: * New native configurations -Alpha Linux alpha-*-linux* +Alpha Linux alpha*-*-linux* +Unixware 2.x i[3456]86-unixware2* +Irix 6.x mips*-sgi-irix6* +PowerPC Linux powerpc-*-linux* +PowerPC Solaris powerpcle-*-solaris* +Sparc Linux sparc-*-linux* * New targets +Argonaut Risc Chip (ARC) arc-*-* +Hitachi H8/300S h8300*-*-* +Matsushita MN10200 w/simulator mn10200-*-* +Matsushita MN10300 w/simulator mn10300-*-* +MIPS NEC VR4100 mips64*vr4100*{,el}-*-elf* +MIPS NEC VR5000 mips64*vr5000*{,el}-*-elf* +MIPS Toshiba TX39 mips64*tx39*{,el}-*-elf* +Mitsubishi D10V w/simulator d10v-*-* +Mitsubishi M32R/D w/simulator m32r-*-elf* +Tsqware Sparclet sparclet-*-* +NEC V850 w/simulator v850-*-* + +* New debugging protocols + +ARM with RDI protocol arm*-*-* M68K with dBUG monitor m68*-*-{aout,coff,elf} +DDB and LSI variants of PMON protocol mips*-*-* +PowerPC with DINK32 monitor powerpc{,le}-*-eabi +PowerPC with SDS protocol powerpc{,le}-*-eabi +Macraigor OCD (Wiggler) devices powerpc{,le}-*-eabi + +* DWARF 2 + +All configurations can now understand and use the DWARF 2 debugging +format. The choice is automatic, if the symbol file contains DWARF 2 +information. + +* Java frontend + +GDB now includes basic Java language support. This support is +only useful with Java compilers that produce native machine code. + +* solib-absolute-prefix and solib-search-path + +For SunOS and SVR4 shared libraries, you may now set the prefix for +loading absolute shared library symbol files, and the search path for +locating non-absolute shared library symbol files. + +* Live range splitting + +GDB can now effectively debug code for which GCC has performed live +range splitting as part of its optimization. See gdb/doc/LRS for +more details on the expected format of the stabs information. + +* Hurd support + +GDB's support for the GNU Hurd, including thread debugging, has been +updated to work with current versions of the Hurd. + +* ARM Thumb support + +GDB's ARM target configuration now handles the ARM7T (Thumb) 16-bit +instruction set. ARM GDB automatically detects when Thumb +instructions are in use, and adjusts disassembly and backtracing +accordingly. + +* MIPS16 support + +GDB's MIPS target configurations now handle the MIP16 16-bit +instruction set. + +* Overlay support + +GDB now includes support for overlays; if an executable has been +linked such that multiple sections are based at the same address, GDB +will decide which section to use for symbolic info. You can choose to +control the decision manually, using overlay commands, or implement +additional target-side support and use "overlay load-target" to bring +in the overlay mapping. Do "help overlay" for more detail. + +* info symbol + +The command "info symbol <address>" displays information about +the symbol at the specified address. + +* Trace support + +The standard remote protocol now includes an extension that allows +asynchronous collection and display of trace data. This requires +extensive support in the target-side debugging stub. Tracing mode +includes a new interaction mode in GDB and new commands: see the +file tracepoint.c for more details. + +* MIPS simulator + +Configurations for embedded MIPS now include a simulator contributed +by Cygnus Solutions. The simulator supports the instruction sets +of most MIPS variants. + +* Sparc simulator + +Sparc configurations may now include the ERC32 simulator contributed +by the European Space Agency. The simulator is not built into +Sparc targets by default; configure with --enable-sim to include it. + +* set architecture + +For target configurations that may include multiple variants of a +basic architecture (such as MIPS and SH), you may now set the +architecture explicitly. "set arch" sets, "info arch" lists +the possible architectures. *** Changes in GDB-4.16: |