+2006-11-19 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Add a new section for changes since GDB 6.6. Rename
+ the section "Changes since GDB 6.5" into "Changes in GDB 6.6".
+ Move a couple of items into the new section as they did not
+ make it to 6.6.
+
2006-11-19 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
GDB 6.6 branch created (branch timestamp: 2006-11-15 12:00)
What has changed in GDB?
(Organized release by release)
-*** Changes since GDB 6.5
+*** Changes since GDB 6.6
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now has lower overhead for high
+frequency signals (e.g. SIGALRM) via the QPassSignals packet.
+
+* New remote packets
+
+QPassSignals:
+ Ignore the specified signals; pass them directly to the debugged program
+ without stopping other threads or reporting them to GDB.
+
+
+*** Changes in GDB 6.6
* New targets
* Support for GNU/Linux Thread Local Storage (TLS, per-thread variables) no
longer requires symbolic debug information (e.g. DWARF-2).
-* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now has lower overhead for high
-frequency signals (e.g. SIGALRM) via the QPassSignals packet.
-
* New commands
set substitute-path
Fetch an OS auxilliary vector from the remote stub. This packet is a
more efficient replacement for qPart:auxv:read.
-QPassSignals:
- Ignore the specified signals; pass them directly to the debugged program
- without stopping other threads or reporting them to GDB.
-
* Removed remote packets
qPart:auxv:read: