* Per-inferior thread numbers.
* Breakpoint "explicit locations" (via CLI and GDB/MI).
* New convenience variables ($_gthread, $_inferior).
* Record btrace now supports non-stop mode.
* Various improvements on AArch64 GNU/Linux:
- Multi-architecture debugging support.
- displaced stepping.
- tracepoint support added in GDBserver.
* In Ada, the overloads selection menu provides the parameter
types and return types for the matching overloaded subprograms.
* Various remote protocol improvements, including several
new packets which can be used to support features such as
follow-exec-mode, exec catchpoints, syscall catchpoints, etc.
* Some minor improvements in the Python API for extending GDB.
- Added new patches from Fedora:
gdb-fedora-libncursesw.patch
gdb-fortran-stride-intel-1of6.patch
gdb-fortran-stride-intel-2of6.patch
gdb-fortran-stride-intel-3of6.patch
gdb-fortran-stride-intel-4of6.patch
gdb-fortran-stride-intel-5of6.patch
gdb-fortran-stride-intel-6of6-nokfail.patch
gdb-fortran-stride-intel-6of6.patch
gdb-opcodes-clflushopt-test.patch
gdb-testsuite-readline63-sigint.patch
- Removed obsolete patches:
gdb-6.3-bz231832-obstack-2gb.patch
gdb-pahole-python2.patch
gdb-probes-based-interface-robust-1of2.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:gcc/gdb?expand=0&rev=132
The GDB 4.8 features are:
* Guile scripting support.
* Python scripting enhancements.
* New commands:
** guile
** guile-repl
** info auto-load guile-scripts [REGEXP]
* New options:
** maint ada set ignore-descriptive-types (on|off)
** maint set target-async (on|off)
** set|show auto-load guile-scripts (on|off)
** set|show auto-connect-native-target
** set|show guile print-stack (none|message|full)
** set|show mi-async (on|off)
** set|show print symbol-loading (off|brief|full)
** set|show record btrace replay-memory-access (read-only|read-write)
* Remote Protocol:
** The qXfer:btrace:read packet supports a new annex 'delta'.
* GDB/MI:
** A new option "-gdb-set mi-async" replaces "-gdb-set target-async".
* New target configurations:
** PowerPC64 GNU/Linux little-endian
* btrace enhancements:
** The btrace record target now supports the 'record goto' command.
** The btrace record target supports limited reverse execution and
replay.
* ISO C99 variable length automatic arrays support.
* It is no longer required to "set target-async on" in order to use
background execution commands (e.g., "c&", "s&", etc.).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:gcc/gdb?expand=0&rev=102
