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@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ * New native configurations +HP-UX 10.20 hppa*-*-hpux10.20 +HP-UX 11.x hppa*-*-hpux11.0* M68K Linux m68*-*-linux* * New targets @@ -12,6 +14,34 @@ M68K Linux m68*-*-linux* Fujitsu FR30 fr30-*-elf* Mitsubishi D30V d30v-*-* +* Readline 2.2 + +GDB now uses readline 2.2. + +* HP-UX Support + +Thanks to a major code donation from HP, GDB now has much more +extensive support for HP-UX. Added features include shared library +support, kernel threads and hardware watchpoints for 11.00, support +for HP's ANSI C and C++ compilers, and compatibility mode for xdb +commands. + +* Catchpoints + +HP's donation includes the new concept of catchpoints, which is a +generalization of the old catch command. On HP-UX, it is now possible +to catch exec, fork, and vfork, as well as library loading. + +* Debugging Across Forks + +On HP-UX, you can choose which process to debug when a fork() happens +in the inferior. + +* TUI + +HP has donated a curses-based terminal user interface (TUI). To get +it, build with --enable-tui. + * GDB Remote protocol For 64 bit targets, the memory packets ("M" and "m") can now contain a |