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@@ -46,6 +46,20 @@ language. See https://www.rust-lang.org/ for more information about Rust. +* Support for running interpreters on specified input/output devices + + GDB now supports a new mechanism that allows frontends to provide + fully featured GDB console views, as a better alternative to + building such views on top of the "-interpreter-exec console" + command. See the new "new-ui" command below. With that command, + frontends can now start GDB in the traditional command-line mode + running in an embedded terminal emulator widget, and create a + separate MI interpreter running on a specified i/o device. In this + way, GDB handles line editing, history, tab completion, etc. in the + console all by itself, and the GUI uses the separate MI interpreter + for its own control and synchronization, invisible to the command + line. + * New commands skip -file file @@ -62,6 +76,10 @@ maint info line-table REGEXP maint selftest Run any GDB unit tests that were compiled in. +new-ui INTERP TTY + Start a new user interface instance running INTERP as interpreter, + using the TTY file for input/output. + * Support for tracepoints and fast tracepoints on s390-linux and s390x-linux was added in GDBserver, including JIT compiling fast tracepoint's conditional expression bytecode into native code. |