* 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
- Merge from fedoras gdb-7.7-1.fc21, a rebase to FSF GDB 7.7.
The 7.7 features are:
* For C++, the 'typeid' operator has been added and
exception catchpoints can be filtered by type.
* Python scripting has been extended
* New commands and new command options
* New convenice variables/functions
* Some GDB/MI improvements
* Remote protocal improvments
* SystemTap SDT probes support AArch64 GNU/Linux
* Support for Fission DWP file format version 2
* 'tsave' command supports CTF (Common Trace Format)
* New script 'gcore'
- Remove now obsolete gdb-aarch64-hw-break.patch
- Remove merged bits from gdb-ppc64le.patch
- Rediff gdb-6.6-buildid-locate-rpm-suse.patch
- Add gdb-fix-attach-signalled-detach-stopped.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/221530
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:gcc/gdb?expand=0&rev=92
- Merge from gdb-7.5.1-30.fc18.src.rpm.
7.5.1 gives:
* An "Attempt to dereference a generic pointer" errors (-var-create).
* Backtrace problems on x32 (PR backtrace/14646).
* next/step/finish problems on x32 (PR gdb/14647).
* A "malformed linespec error: unexpected keyword, [...]" error
(PR breakpoints/14643).
* GDB crash while stepping through powerpc (32bits) code.
* A failed assertion in linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx.
* A "!frame_id_inlined_p (frame_id)" failed assertion.
* A "No more reverse-execution history." error during reverse
"next" execution (PR 14548).
* Incomplete command descriptions in "apropos" output.
* PR gdb/14494 (a GDB crash difficult to characterize).
7.5 gives:
* Go language support.
* New targets (x32 ABI, microMIPS, Renesas RL78, HP OpenVMS ia64).
* More Python scripting improvements.
* SDT (Static Defined Tracing) probes support with SystemTap probes.
* GDBserver improvements (stdio connections, target-side evaluation
of breakpoint conditions, remote protocol improvements).
* Other miscellaneous improvements (ability to stop when a shared
library is loaded/unloaded, dynamic printf, etc).
* Reverse debugging on ARM.
- Do not provide a custom (safe) auto-load dir.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/147743
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/gdb?expand=0&rev=90
- Merge from gdb-7.4.50.20120603-3.fc18.src.rpm.
* Wed Jun 6 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120603-3.fc18
- Disable -lmcheck in the development builds.
- Fix assertion on some files as glibc-2.15.90-8.fc18 (Doug Evans).
* Sun Jun 3 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120603-2.fc18
- Fix Release.
- Make yum --enablerepo compatible with at least mock-1.1.21-1.fc16 Rawhide cfg.
* Sun Jun 3 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120602-1.fc18
- Rebase to FSF GDB 7.4.50.20120602.
- [testsuite] BuildRequire gcc-go.
- Drop printing 2D C++ vectors as matrices which no longer worked (BZ 562763).
- Fix dejagnu-1.5-4.fc17 compatibility for Go (for BZ 635651).
- Use librpm.so.3 for rpm-4.10.0 in Fedora 18.
- Revert recent breakage of UNIX objfiles order for symbols lookup.
* Sat Jun 2 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-48.fc17
- [ppc] Fix hardware watchpoints on PowerPC (BZ 827600, Edjunior Machado).
* Mon May 28 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-47.fc17
- Workaround PR libc/14166 for inferior calls of strstr.
* Mon May 14 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-46.fc17
- [RHEL5] Workaround doc build race.
* Mon May 14 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-45.fc17
- Rename "set auto-load" patchset variable $ddir to $datadir.
* Wed May 9 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-44.fc17
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/125095
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/gdb?expand=0&rev=88
