What has changed in GDB?
(Organized release by release)
-*** Changes since GDB 9
+*** Changes since GDB 11
+
+* Configure changes
+
+--enable-threading
+
+ Enable or disable multithreaded symbol loading. This is enabled
+ by default, but passing --disable-threading or --enable-threading=no
+ to configure will disable it.
+
+ Disabling this can cause a performance penalty when there are a lot of
+ symbols to load, but is useful for debugging purposes.
+
+* New commands
+
+maint set backtrace-on-fatal-signal on|off
+maint show backtrace-on-fatal-signal
+ This setting is 'on' by default. When 'on' GDB will print a limited
+ backtrace to stderr in the situation where GDB terminates with a
+ fatal signal. This only supported on some platforms where the
+ backtrace and backtrace_symbols_fd functions are available.
+
+set source open on|off
+show source open
+ This setting, which is on by default, controls whether GDB will try
+ to open source code files. Switching this off will stop GDB trying
+ to open and read source code files, which can be useful if the files
+ are located over a slow network connection.
+
+set varsize-limit
+show varsize-limit
+ These are now deprecated aliases for "set max-value-size" and
+ "show max-value-size".
+
+task apply [all | TASK-IDS...] [FLAG]... COMMAND
+ Like "thread apply", but applies COMMAND to Ada tasks.
+
+watch [...] task ID
+ Watchpoints can now be restricted to a specific Ada task.
+
+maint set internal-error backtrace on|off
+maint show internal-error backtrace
+maint set internal-warning backtrace on|off
+maint show internal-warning backtrace
+ GDB can now print a backtrace of itself when it encounters either an
+ internal-error, or an internal-warning. This is on by default for
+ internal-error and off by default for internal-warning.
+
+set logging on|off
+ Deprecated and replaced by "set logging enabled on|off".
+
+set logging enabled on|off
+show logging enabled
+ These commands set or show whether logging is enabled or disabled.
+
+exit
+ You can now exit GDB by using the new command "exit", in addition to
+ the existing "quit" command.
+
+set debug threads on|off
+show debug threads
+ Print additional debug messages about thread creation and deletion.
+
+set debug linux-nat on|off
+show debug linux-nat
+ These new commands replaced the old 'set debug lin-lwp' and 'show
+ debug lin-lwp' respectively. Turning this setting on prints debug
+ messages relating to GDB's handling of native Linux inferiors.
+
+maint flush source-cache
+ Flush the contents of the source code cache.
+
+maint set gnu-source-highlight enabled on|off
+maint show gnu-source-highlight enabled
+ Whether GDB should use the GNU Source Highlight library for adding
+ styling to source code. When off, the library will not be used, even
+ when available. When GNU Source Highlight isn't used, or can't add
+ styling to a particular source file, then the Python Pygments
+ library will be used instead.
+
+* Changed commands
+
+maint packet
+ This command can now print a reply, if the reply includes
+ non-printable characters. Any non-printable characters are printed
+ as escaped hex, e.g. \x?? where '??' is replaces with the value of
+ the non-printable character.
+
+clone-inferior
+ The clone-inferior command now ensures that the TTY, CMD and ARGS
+ settings are copied from the original inferior to the new one.
+ All modifications to the environment variables done using the 'set
+ environment' or 'unset environment' commands are also copied to the new
+ inferior.
+
+set debug lin-lwp on|off
+show debug lin-lwp
+ These commands have been removed from GDB. The new command 'set
+ debug linux-nat' and 'show debug linux-nat' should be used
+ instead.
+
+* Python API
+
+ ** New function gdb.add_history(), which takes a gdb.Value object
+ and adds the value it represents to GDB's history list. An
+ integer, the index of the new item in the history list, is
+ returned.
+
+ ** New gdb.events.gdb_exiting event. This event is called with a
+ gdb.GdbExitingEvent object which has the read-only attribute
+ 'exit_code', which contains the value of the GDB exit code. This
+ event is triggered once GDB decides it is going to exit, but
+ before GDB starts to clean up its internal state.
+
+ ** New function gdb.architecture_names(), which returns a list
+ containing all of the possible Architecture.name() values. Each
+ entry is a string.
+
+ ** New function gdb.Architecture.integer_type(), which returns an
+ integer type given a size and a signed-ness.
+
+ ** New gdb.TargetConnection object type that represents a connection
+ (as displayed by the 'info connections' command). A sub-class,
+ gdb.RemoteTargetConnection, is used to represent 'remote' and
+ 'extended-remote' connections.
+
+ ** The gdb.Inferior type now has a 'connection' property which is an
+ instance of gdb.TargetConnection, the connection used by this
+ inferior. This can be None if the inferior has no connection.
+
+ ** New 'gdb.events.connection_removed' event registry, which emits a
+ 'gdb.ConnectionEvent' when a connection is removed from GDB.
+ This event has a 'connection' property, a gdb.TargetConnection
+ object for the connection being removed.
+
+ ** New gdb.connections() function that returns a list of all
+ currently active connections.
+
+ ** New gdb.RemoteTargetConnection.send_packet(PACKET) method. This
+ is equivalent to the existing 'maint packet' CLI command; it
+ allows a user specified packet to be sent to the remote target.
+
+ ** New function gdb.host_charset(), returns a string, which is the
+ name of the current host charset.
+
+* New features in the GDB remote stub, GDBserver
+
+ ** GDBserver is now supported on OpenRISC GNU/Linux.
+
+* New native configurations
+
+GNU/Linux/OpenRISC or1k*-*-linux*
+
+*** Changes in GDB 11
+
+* The 'set disassembler-options' command now supports specifying options
+ for the ARC target.
+
+* GDB now supports general memory tagging functionality if the underlying
+ architecture supports the proper primitives and hooks. Currently this is
+ enabled only for AArch64 MTE.
+
+ This includes:
+
+ - Additional information when the inferior crashes with a SIGSEGV caused by
+ a memory tag violation.
+
+ - A new modifier 'm' for the "x" command, which displays allocation tags for a
+ particular memory range.
+
+ - Display of memory tag mismatches by "print", for addresses and
+ pointers, if memory tagging is supported by the architecture.
+
+* Building GDB now requires GMP (The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic
+ Library).
+
+* MI changes
+
+ ** '-break-insert --qualified' and '-dprintf-insert --qualified'
+
+ The MI -break-insert and -dprintf-insert commands now support a
+ new "--qualified" option that makes GDB interpret a specified
+ function name as a complete fully-qualified name. This is the
+ equivalent of the CLI's "break -qualified" and "dprintf
+ -qualified".
+
+ ** '-break-insert --force-condition' and '-dprintf-insert --force-condition'
+
+ The MI -break-insert and -dprintf-insert commands now support a
+ '--force-condition' flag to forcibly define a condition even when
+ the condition is invalid at all locations of the breakpoint. This
+ is equivalent to the '-force-condition' flag of the CLI's "break"
+ command.
+
+ ** '-break-condition --force'
+
+ The MI -break-condition command now supports a '--force' flag to
+ forcibly define a condition even when the condition is invalid at
+ all locations of the selected breakpoint. This is equivalent to
+ the '-force' flag of the CLI's "cond" command.
+
+ ** '-file-list-exec-source-files [--group-by-objfile]
+ [--basename | --dirname]
+ [--] [REGEXP]'
+
+ The existing -file-list-exec-source-files command now takes an
+ optional REGEXP which is used to filter the source files that are
+ included in the results.
+
+ By default REGEXP is matched against the full filename of the
+ source file. When one of --basename or --dirname is given then
+ REGEXP is only matched against the specified part of the full
+ source filename.
+
+ When the optional --group-by-objfile flag is used the output
+ format is changed, the results are now a list of object files
+ (executable and libraries) with the source files that are
+ associated with each object file.
+
+ The results from -file-list-exec-source-files now include a
+ 'debug-fully-read' field which takes the value 'true' or 'false'.
+ A 'true' value indicates the source file is from a compilation
+ unit that has had its debug information fully read in by GDB, a
+ value of 'false' indicates GDB has only performed a partial scan
+ of the debug information so far.
+
+* GDB now supports core file debugging for x86_64 Cygwin programs.
+
+* GDB will now look for the .gdbinit file in a config directory before
+ looking for ~/.gdbinit. The file is searched for in the following
+ locations: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gdb/gdbinit, $HOME/.config/gdb/gdbinit,
+ $HOME/.gdbinit. On Apple hosts the search order is instead:
+ $HOME/Library/Preferences/gdb/gdbinit, $HOME/.gdbinit.
+
+* GDB now supports fixed point types which are described in DWARF
+ as base types with a fixed-point encoding. Additionally, support
+ for the DW_AT_GNU_numerator and DW_AT_GNU_denominator has also
+ been added.
+
+ For Ada, this allows support for fixed point types without requiring
+ the use of the GNAT encoding (based on information added to the type's
+ name following a GNAT-specific format).
+
+* GDB will now load and process commands from ~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit
+ or ~/.gdbearlyinit if these files are present. These files are
+ processed earlier than any of the other initialization files and
+ can affect parts of GDB's startup that previously had already been
+ completed before the initialization files were read, for example
+ styling of the initial GDB greeting.
+
+* GDB now has two new options "--early-init-command" and
+ "--early-init-eval-command" with corresponding short options "-eix"
+ and "-eiex" that allow options (that would normally appear in a
+ gdbearlyinit file) to be passed on the command line.
+
+* For RISC-V targets, the target feature "org.gnu.gdb.riscv.vector" is
+ now understood by GDB, and can be used to describe the vector
+ registers of a target. The precise requirements of this register
+ feature are documented in the GDB manual.
+
+* For ARM targets, the "org.gnu.gdb.arm.m-profile-mve" feature is now
+ supported by GDB and describes a new VPR register from the ARM MVE
+ (Helium) extension. See the GDB manual for more information.
+
+* TUI improvements
+
+ ** TUI windows now support mouse actions. The mouse wheel scrolls
+ the appropriate window.
+
+ ** Key combinations that do not have a specific action on the
+ focused window are passed to GDB. For example, you now can use
+ Ctrl-Left/Ctrl-Right to move between words in the command window
+ regardless of which window is in focus. Previously you would
+ need to focus on the command window for such key combinations to
+ work.
+
+* New commands
+
+set debug event-loop
+show debug event-loop
+ Control the display of debug output about GDB's event loop.
+
+set print memory-tag-violations
+show print memory-tag-violations
+ Control whether to display additional information about memory tag violations
+ when printing pointers and addresses. Architecture support for memory
+ tagging is required for this option to have an effect.
+
+maintenance flush symbol-cache
+maintenance flush register-cache
+ These new commands are equivalent to the already existing commands
+ 'maintenance flush-symbol-cache' and 'flushregs' respectively.
+
+maintenance flush dcache
+ A new command to flush the dcache.
+
+maintenance info target-sections
+ Print GDB's internal target sections table.
+
+maintenance info jit
+ Print the JIT code objects in the inferior known to GDB.
+
+memory-tag show-logical-tag POINTER
+ Print the logical tag for POINTER.
+memory-tag with-logical-tag POINTER TAG
+ Print POINTER with logical tag TAG.
+memory-tag show-allocation-tag ADDRESS
+ Print the allocation tag for ADDRESS.
+memory-tag set-allocation-tag ADDRESS LENGTH TAGS
+ Set the allocation tag for [ADDRESS, ADDRESS + LENGTH) to TAGS.
+memory-tag check POINTER
+ Validate that POINTER's logical tag matches the allocation tag.
+
+set startup-quietly on|off
+show startup-quietly
+ When 'on', this causes GDB to act as if "-silent" were passed on the
+ command line. This command needs to be added to an early
+ initialization file (e.g. ~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit) in order to
+ affect GDB.
+
+set print type hex on|off
+show print type hex
+ When 'on', the 'ptype' command uses hexadecimal notation to print sizes
+ and offsets of struct members. When 'off', decimal notation is used.
+
+set python ignore-environment on|off
+show python ignore-environment
+ When 'on', this causes GDB's builtin Python to ignore any
+ environment variables that would otherwise affect how Python
+ behaves. This command needs to be added to an early initialization
+ file (e.g. ~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit) in order to affect GDB.
+
+set python dont-write-bytecode auto|on|off
+show python dont-write-bytecode
+ When 'on', this causes GDB's builtin Python to not write any
+ byte-code (.pyc files) to disk. This command needs to be added to
+ an early initialization file (e.g. ~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit) in
+ order to affect GDB. When 'off' byte-code will always be written.
+ When set to 'auto' (the default) Python will check the
+ PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE environment variable.
+
+* Changed commands
+
+break [PROBE_MODIFIER] [LOCATION] [thread THREADNUM]
+ [-force-condition] [if CONDITION]
+ This command would previously refuse setting a breakpoint if the
+ CONDITION expression is invalid at a location. It now accepts and
+ defines the breakpoint if there is at least one location at which
+ the CONDITION is valid. The locations for which the CONDITION is
+ invalid, are automatically disabled. If CONDITION is invalid at all
+ of the locations, setting the breakpoint is still rejected. However,
+ the '-force-condition' flag can be used in this case for forcing GDB to
+ define the breakpoint, making all the current locations automatically
+ disabled. This may be useful if the user knows the condition will
+ become meaningful at a future location, e.g. due to a shared library
+ load.
+
+condition [-force] N COND
+ The behavior of this command is changed the same way for the 'break'
+ command as explained above. The '-force' flag can be used to force
+ GDB into defining the condition even when COND is invalid for all the
+ current locations of breakpoint N.
+
+flushregs
+maintenance flush-symbol-cache
+ These commands are deprecated in favor of the new commands
+ 'maintenance flush register-cache' and 'maintenance flush
+ symbol-cache' respectively.
+
+set style version foreground COLOR
+set style version background COLOR
+set style version intensity VALUE
+ Control the styling of GDB's version number text.
+
+inferior [ID]
+ When the ID parameter is omitted, then this command prints information
+ about the current inferior. When the ID parameter is present, the
+ behavior of the command is unchanged and have the inferior ID become
+ the current inferior.
+
+maintenance info sections
+ The ALLOBJ keyword has been replaced with an -all-objects command
+ line flag. It is now possible to filter which sections are printed
+ even when -all-objects is passed.
+
+ptype[/FLAGS] TYPE | EXPRESSION
+ The 'ptype' command has two new flags. When '/x' is set, hexadecimal
+ notation is used when printing sizes and offsets of struct members.
+ When '/d' is set, decimal notation is used when printing sizes and
+ offsets of struct members. Default behavior is given by 'show print
+ type hex'.
+
+info sources
+ The info sources command output has been restructured. The results
+ are now based around a list of objfiles (executable and libraries),
+ and for each objfile the source files that are part of that objfile
+ are listed.
+
+* Removed targets and native configurations
+
+ARM Symbian arm*-*-symbianelf*
+
+* New remote packets
+
+qMemTags
+ Request the remote to send allocation tags for a particular memory range.
+QMemTags
+ Request the remote to store the specified allocation tags to the requested
+ memory range.
+
+* Guile API
+
+ ** Improved support for rvalue reference values:
+ TYPE_CODE_RVALUE_REF is now exported as part of the API and the
+ value-referenced-value procedure now handles rvalue reference
+ values.
+
+ ** New procedures for obtaining value variants:
+ value-reference-value, value-rvalue-reference-value and
+ value-const-value.
+
+ ** Temporary breakpoints can now be created with make-breakpoint and
+ tested for using breakpoint-temporary?.
+
+* Python API
+
+ ** Inferior objects now contain a read-only 'connection_num' attribute that
+ gives the connection number as seen in 'info connections' and
+ 'info inferiors'.
+
+ ** New method gdb.Frame.level() which returns the stack level of the
+ frame object.
+
+ ** New method gdb.PendingFrame.level() which returns the stack level
+ of the frame object.
+
+ ** When hitting a catchpoint, the Python API will now emit a
+ gdb.BreakpointEvent rather than a gdb.StopEvent. The
+ gdb.Breakpoint attached to the event will have type BP_CATCHPOINT.
+
+ ** Python TUI windows can now receive mouse click events. If the
+ Window object implements the click method, it is called for each
+ mouse click event in this window.
+
+*** Changes in GDB 10
+
+* There are new feature names for ARC targets: "org.gnu.gdb.arc.core"
+ and "org.gnu.gdb.arc.aux". The old names are still supported but
+ must be considered obsolete. They will be deprecated after some
+ grace period.
+
+* Help and apropos commands will now show the documentation of a
+ command only once, even if that command has one or more aliases.
+ These commands now show the command name, then all of its aliases,
+ and finally the description of the command.
+
+* 'help aliases' now shows only the user defined aliases. GDB predefined
+ aliases are shown together with their aliased command.
* GDB now supports debuginfod, an HTTP server for distributing ELF/DWARF
debugging information as well as source code.
You can get the latest version from https://sourceware.org/elfutils.
+* Multi-target debugging support
+
+ GDB now supports debugging multiple target connections
+ simultaneously. For example, you can now have each inferior
+ connected to different remote servers running in different machines,
+ or have one inferior debugging a local native process, an inferior
+ debugging a core dump, etc.
+
+ This support is experimental and comes with some limitations -- you
+ can only resume multiple targets simultaneously if all targets
+ support non-stop mode, and all remote stubs or servers must support
+ the same set of remote protocol features exactly. See also "info
+ connections" and "add-inferior -no-connection" below, and "maint set
+ target-non-stop" in the user manual.
+
* New features in the GDB remote stub, GDBserver
+ ** GDBserver is now supported on ARC GNU/Linux.
+
** GDBserver is now supported on RISC-V GNU/Linux.
+ ** GDBserver no longer supports these host triplets:
+
+ i[34567]86-*-lynxos*
+ powerpc-*-lynxos*
+ i[34567]86-*-nto*
+ bfin-*-*linux*
+ crisv32-*-linux*
+ cris-*-linux*
+ m32r*-*-linux*
+ tilegx-*-linux*
+ arm*-*-mingw32ce*
+ i[34567]86-*-mingw32ce*
+
* Debugging MS-Windows processes now sets $_exitsignal when the
inferior is terminated by a signal, instead of setting $_exitcode.
string is that GDB will not try to load any previous command
history.
+* On Windows targets, it is now possible to debug 32-bit programs with a
+ 64-bit GDB.
+
* New commands
set exec-file-mismatch -- Set exec-file-mismatch handling (ask|warn|off).
show exec-file-mismatch -- Show exec-file-mismatch handling (ask|warn|off).
- Set or show the option 'exec-file-mismatch'. When GDB attaches to
- a running process and can determine the name of the executable file
- the process runs, this new option indicates whether to detect mismatch
- between the name of the current executable file loaded by GDB
- and the name of the executable file used to start the process.
- If 'ask', the default, display a warning and ask the user
- whether to load the process executable file; if 'warn', just display
- a warning; if 'off', don't attempt to detect a mismatch.
+ Set or show the option 'exec-file-mismatch'. When GDB attaches to a
+ running process, this new option indicates whether to detect
+ a mismatch between the current executable file loaded by GDB and the
+ executable file used to start the process. If 'ask', the default,
+ display a warning and ask the user whether to load the process
+ executable file; if 'warn', just display a warning; if 'off', don't
+ attempt to detect a mismatch.
tui new-layout NAME WINDOW WEIGHT [WINDOW WEIGHT]...
Define a new TUI layout, specifying its name and the windows that
will be displayed.
+maintenance print xml-tdesc [FILE]
+ Prints the current target description as an XML document. If the
+ optional FILE is provided (which is an XML target description) then
+ the target description is read from FILE into GDB, and then
+ reprinted.
+
+maintenance print core-file-backed-mappings
+ Prints file-backed mappings loaded from a core file's note section.
+ Output is expected to be similar to that of "info proc mappings".
+
+set debug fortran-array-slicing on|off
+show debug fortran-array-slicing
+ Print debugging when taking slices of Fortran arrays.
+
+set fortran repack-array-slices on|off
+show fortran repack-array-slices
+ When taking slices from Fortran arrays and strings, if the slice is
+ non-contiguous within the original value then, when this option is
+ on, the new value will be repacked into a single contiguous value.
+ When this option is off, then the value returned will consist of a
+ descriptor that describes the slice within the memory of the
+ original parent value.
+
+* Changed commands
+
+alias [-a] [--] ALIAS = COMMAND [DEFAULT-ARGS...]
+ The alias command can now specify default args for an alias.
+ GDB automatically prepends the alias default args to the argument list
+ provided explicitly by the user.
+ For example, to have a backtrace with full details, you can define
+ an alias 'bt_ALL' as
+ 'alias bt_ALL = backtrace -entry-values both -frame-arg all
+ -past-main -past-entry -full'.
+ Alias default arguments can also use a set of nested 'with' commands,
+ e.g. 'alias pp10 = with print pretty -- with print elem 10 -- print'
+ defines the alias pp10 that will pretty print a maximum of 10 elements
+ of the given expression (if the expression is an array).
+
* New targets
GNU/Linux/RISC-V (gdbserver) riscv*-*-linux*
+BPF bpf-unknown-none
+Z80 z80-unknown-*
* Python API
** gdb.register_window_type can be used to implement new TUI windows
in Python.
+ ** Dynamic types can now be queried. gdb.Type has a new attribute,
+ "dynamic", and gdb.Type.sizeof can be None for a dynamic type. A
+ field of a dynamic type may have None for its "bitpos" attribute
+ as well.
+
+ ** Commands written in Python can be in the "TUI" help class by
+ registering with the new constant gdb.COMMAND_TUI.
+
+ ** New method gdb.PendingFrame.architecture () to retrieve the
+ architecture of the pending frame.
+
+ ** New gdb.Architecture.registers method that returns a
+ gdb.RegisterDescriptorIterator object, an iterator that returns
+ gdb.RegisterDescriptor objects. The new RegisterDescriptor is a
+ way to query the registers available for an architecture.
+
+ ** New gdb.Architecture.register_groups method that returns a
+ gdb.RegisterGroupIterator object, an iterator that returns
+ gdb.RegisterGroup objects. The new RegisterGroup is a way to
+ discover the available register groups.
+
+* Guile API
+
+ ** GDB can now be built with GNU Guile 3.0 and 2.2 in addition to 2.0.
+
+ ** Procedures 'memory-port-read-buffer-size',
+ 'set-memory-port-read-buffer-size!', 'memory-port-write-buffer-size',
+ and 'set-memory-port-write-buffer-size!' are deprecated. When
+ using Guile 2.2 and later, users who need to control the size of
+ a memory port's internal buffer can use the 'setvbuf' procedure.
+
*** Changes in GDB 9
* 'thread-exited' event is now available in the annotations interface.
This feature is still in testing, so it is disabled by default. You
can turn it on using 'maint set worker-threads unlimited'.
-* Multi-target debugging support
-
- GDB now supports debugging multiple target connections
- simultaneously. For example, you can now have each inferior
- connected to different remote servers running in different machines,
- or have one inferior debugging a local native process, an inferior
- debugging a core dump, etc.
-
- This support is experimental and comes with some limitations -- you
- can only resume multiple targets simultaneously if all targets
- support non-stop mode, and all remote stubs or servers must support
- the same set of remote protocol features exactly. See also "info
- connections" and "add-inferior -no-connection" below, and "maint set
- target-non-stop" in the user manual.
-
* Python API
** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a
set debug compile-cplus-types
show debug compile-cplus-types
Control the display of debug output about type conversion in the
- C++ compile feature. Commands have no effect while compiliong
+ C++ compile feature. Commands have no effect while compiling
for other languages.
set debug skip
Additionally, a file spec and a function spec may now be combined.
maint info line-table REGEXP
- Display the contents of GDB's internal line table data struture.
+ Display the contents of GDB's internal line table data structure.
maint selftest
Run any GDB unit tests that were compiled in.
set ada print-signatures on|off
show ada print-signatures"
Control whether parameter types and return types are displayed in overloads
- selection menus. It is activaled (@code{on}) by default.
+ selection menus. It is activated (@code{on}) by default.
set max-value-size
show max-value-size
Set the requested ring buffer size for branch tracing in BTS format.
Qbtrace:pt
- Enable Intel Procesor Trace-based branch tracing for the current
+ Enable Intel Processor Trace-based branch tracing for the current
process. The remote stub reports support for this packet to GDB's
qSupported query.
* Newly installed $prefix/bin/gcore acts as a shell interface for the
GDB command gcore.
-* GDB now implements the the C++ 'typeid' operator.
+* GDB now implements the C++ 'typeid' operator.
* The new convenience variable $_exception holds the exception being
thrown or caught at an exception-related catchpoint.
* Removed remote protocol undocumented extension
An undocumented extension to the remote protocol's `S' stop reply
- packet that permited the stub to pass a process id was removed.
+ packet that permitted the stub to pass a process id was removed.
Remote servers should use the `T' stop reply packet instead.
* GDB now supports multiple function calling conventions according to the
* Watchpoints can now be set on unreadable memory locations, e.g. addresses
which will be allocated using malloc later in program execution.
-* The qXfer:libraries:read remote procotol packet now allows passing a
+* The qXfer:libraries:read remote protocol packet now allows passing a
list of section offsets.
* On GNU/Linux, GDB can now attach to stopped processes. Several race
* New targets
NetBSD/hppa hppa*-*-netbsd*
-Xtensa GNU/Lunux xtensa*-*-linux*
+Xtensa GNU/Linux xtensa*-*-linux*
* Change in command line behavior -- corefiles vs. process ids.
features including 32x64 (e.g., 64-bit amd64 GDB debugging a 32-bit
i386 application).
-GDB 6.3 will be the last release to include the the registers[]
+GDB 6.3 will be the last release to include the registers[]
compatibility module that allowed out-of-date configurations to
continue to work. This change directly impacts the following
configurations:
* New ``start'' command.
-This command runs the program until the begining of the main procedure.
+This command runs the program until the beginning of the main procedure.
* New BSD Kernel Data Access Library (libkvm) interface
* "set prompt-escape-char" command deleted.
The command "set prompt-escape-char" has been deleted. This command,
-and its very obscure effet on GDB's prompt, was never documented,
+and its very obscure effect on GDB's prompt, was never documented,
tested, nor mentioned in the NEWS file.
* OBSOLETE configurations and files
remote side. The data cache could lead to incorrect results because
it doesn't know about volatile variables, thus making it impossible to
debug targets which use memory mapped I/O devices. `set remotecache
-off' turns the the data cache off.
+off' turns the data cache off.
* Remote targets may have threads
* Major bug fixes
-The crash that occured when debugging Sun Ansi-C compiled binaries is
+The crash that occurred when debugging Sun Ansi-C compiled binaries is
fixed. This was due to mishandling of the extra N_SO stabs output
by the compiler.
Recent versions of gcc have a bug in how they emit debugging information for
C++ methods (when using dbx-style stabs). The file 'gcc.patch' (in this
directory) can be applied to gcc to fix the problem. Alternatively, if you
-can't fix gcc, you can #define GCC_MANGLE_BUG when compling gdb/symtab.c. The
+can't fix gcc, you can #define GCC_MANGLE_BUG when compiling gdb/symtab.c. The
usual symptom is difficulty with setting breakpoints on methods. GDB complains
about the method being non-existent. (We believe that version 2.2.2 of GCC has
this problem.)
* New malloc package
GDB now uses a new memory manager called mmalloc, based on gmalloc.
-Mmalloc is capable of handling mutiple heaps of memory. It is also
+Mmalloc is capable of handling multiple heaps of memory. It is also
capable of saving a heap to a file, and then mapping it back in later.
This can be used to greatly speedup the startup of GDB by using a
pre-parsed symbol table which lives in a mmalloc managed heap. For
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