*** Changes since GDB 7.1
+* Windows Thread Information Block access.
+
+ On Windows targets, GDB now supports displaying the Windows Thread
+ Information Block (TIB) structure. This structure is visible either
+ by using the new command `info w32 thread-information-block' or, by
+ dereferencing the new convenience variable named `$_tlb', a
+ thread-specific pointer to the TIB. This feature is also supported
+ when remote debugging using GDBserver.
+
+* New remote packets
+
+qGetTIBAddr
+
+ Return the address of the Windows Thread Information Block of a given thread.
+
+qRelocInsn
+
+ In response to several of the tracepoint packets, the target may now
+ also respond with a number of intermediate `qRelocInsn' request
+ packets before the final result packet, to have GDB handle
+ relocating an instruction to execute at a different address. This
+ is particularly useful for stubs that support fast tracepoints. GDB
+ reports support for this feature in the qSupported packet.
+
* The source command now accepts a -s option to force searching for the
script in the source search path even if the script name specifies
a directory.
- GDBserver now support tracepoints. The feature is currently
supported by the i386-linux and amd64-linux builds.
+ - GDBserver now supports x86_64 Windows 64-bit debugging.
+
* GDB now sends xmlRegisters= in qSupported packet to indicate that
it understands register description.
single `break' command creates multiple breakpoints (e.g.,
breakpoints on overloaded c++ functions).
+* The `rbreak' command now accepts a filename specification as part of
+ its argument, limiting the functions selected by the regex to those
+ in the specified file.
+
+* Support for remote debugging Windows and SymbianOS shared libraries
+ from Unix hosts has been improved. Non Windows GDB builds now can
+ understand target reported file names that follow MS-DOS based file
+ system semantics, such as file names that include drive letters and
+ use the backslash character as directory separator. This makes it
+ possible to transparently use the "set sysroot" and "set
+ solib-search-path" on Unix hosts to point as host copies of the
+ target's shared libraries. See the new command "set
+ target-file-system-kind" described below, and the "Commands to
+ specify files" section in the user manual for more information.
+
+* New commands
+
+set target-file-system-kind unix|dos-based|auto
+show target-file-system-kind
+ Set or show the assumed file system kind for target reported file
+ names.
+
+save breakpoints <filename>
+ Save all current breakpoint definitions to a file suitable for use
+ in a later debugging session. To read the saved breakpoint
+ definitions, use the `source' command.
+
+`save tracepoints' is a new alias for `save-tracepoints'. The latter
+is now deprecated.
+
* Python scripting
** The GDB Python API now has access to breakpoints, symbols, symbol
- tables, program spaces, and frame's code blocks.
+ tables, program spaces, and frame's code blocks. Additionally, GDB
+ Parameters can now be created from the API, and manipulated via
+ set/show in the CLI.
** New functions gdb.target_charset, gdb.target_wide_charset,
- gdb.progspaces, and gdb.current_progspace.
+ gdb.progspaces, gdb.current_progspace, and gdb.string_to_argv.
+
+** New exception gdb.GdbError.
** Pretty-printers are now also looked up in the current program space.
+** GDB now looks for names of Python scripts to auto-load in a
+ special section named `.debug_gdb_scripts', in addition to looking
+ for a OBJFILE-gdb.py script when OBJFILE is read by the debugger.
+
* Tracepoint actions were unified with breakpoint commands. In particular,
there are no longer differences in "info break" output for breakpoints and
tracepoints and the "commands" command can be used for both tracepoints and
ARM Symbian arm*-*-symbianelf*
+* D language support.
+ GDB now supports debugging programs written in the D programming
+ language.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.1
* C++ Improvements
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