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@@ -1,13 +1,82 @@ What has changed since GDB-3.5? (Organized release by release) + *** Changes in GDB-4.13: -* New "complete" command for use by emacs. +* New "complete" command + +This lists all the possible completions for the rest of the line, if it +were to be given as a command itself. This is intended for use by emacs. -* "set prompt" no longer adds a space for you after the prompt you set. This +* Trailing space optional in prompt + +"set prompt" no longer adds a space for you after the prompt you set. This allows you to set a prompt which ends in a space or one that does not. +* Breakpoint hit counts + +"info break" now displays a count of the number of times the breakpoint +has been hit. This is especially useful in conjunction with "ignore"; you +can ignore a large number of breakpoint hits, look at the breakpoint info +to see how many times the breakpoint was hit, then run again, ignoring one +less than that number, and this will get you quickly to the last hit of +that breakpoint. + +* Ability to stop printing at NULL character + +"set print null-stop" will cause GDB to stop printing the characters of +an array when the first NULL is encountered. This is useful when large +arrays actually contain only short strings. + +* Shared library breakpoints + +In SunOS 4.x, SVR4, and Alpha OSF/1 configurations, you can now set +breakpoints in shared libraries before the executable is run. + +* Hardware watchpoints + +There is a new hardware breakpoint for the watch command for sparclite +targets. See gdb/sparclite/hw_breakpoint.note. + +Hardware watchpoints are also now supported under Linux. + +* Annotations + +Annotations have been added. These are for use with graphical interfaces, +and are still experimental. Currently only gdba.el uses these. + +* Improved Irix 5 support + +GDB now works properly with Irix 5.2. + +* Improved HPPA support + +GDB now works properly with the latest GCC and GAS. + +* New native configurations + +Sequent PTX4 i[34]86-sequent-ptx4 +HPPA running OSF/1 hppa*-*-osf* +Atari TT running SVR4 m68*-*-sysv4* +RS/6000 LynxOS rs6000-*-lynxos* + +* New targets + +OS/9000 i[34]86-*-os9k +MIPS R4000 mips64*{,el}-*-{ecoff,elf} +Sparc64 sparc64-*-* + +* Hitachi SH7000 and E7000-PC ICE support + +There is now support for communicating with the Hitachi E7000-PC ICE. +This is available automatically when GDB is configured for the SH. + +* Fixes + +As usual, a variety of small fixes and improvements, both generic +and configuration-specific. See the ChangeLog for more detail. + *** Changes in GDB-4.12: * Irix 5 is now supported |