From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 935 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2005 07:15:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 562 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Dec 2005 07:14:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:15:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-announce@sources.redhat.com Subject: GDB 6.4 Released Message-ID: <20051202071428.GF1215@adacore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Mailing-List: contact gdb-announce-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-announce-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 GDB 6.4 released! Release 6.4 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous FTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for C, C++, Ada, Java and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows variants. Since the previous release (6.3, released one year ago) we've made many fixes and enhancements including: * New native configurations OpenBSD/arm arm*-*-openbsd* OpenBSD/mips64 mips64-*-openbsd* * New targets Morpho Technologies ms1 ms1-elf * New command line options --batch-silent As for --batch, but totally silent. --return-child-result The debugger will exist with the same value the child (debugged) program exited with. --eval-command COMMAND, -ex COMMAND Execute a single GDB CLI command. This may be specified multiple times and in conjunction with the --command (-x) option. * Deprecated commands removed The following commands, that were deprecated in 2000, have been removed: Command Replacement set|show arm disassembly-flavor set|show arm disassembler othernames set arm disassembler set|show remotedebug set|show debug remote set|show archdebug set|show debug arch set|show eventdebug set|show debug event regs info registers * New BSD user-level threads support It is now possible to debug programs using the user-level threads library on OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Currently supported (target) configurations are: FreeBSD/amd64 x86_64-*-freebsd* FreeBSD/i386 i386-*-freebsd* OpenBSD/i386 i386-*-openbsd* Note that the new kernel threads libraries introduced in FreeBSD 5.x are not yet supported. * New support for Matsushita MN10300 w/sim added (Work in progress). mn10300-elf. * REMOVED configurations and files VxWorks and the XDR protocol *-*-vxworks Renesas H8/300S h8300*-*-* Motorola MCORE mcore-*-* Matsushita MN10300 w/simulator mn10300-*-* National Semiconductor NS32000 ns32k-*-* NEC V850 v850-*-* * New "set print array-indexes" command After turning this setting "on", GDB prints the index of each element when displaying arrays. The default is "off" to preserve the previous behavior. * VAX floating point support GDB now supports the not-quite-ieee VAX F and D floating point formats. * User-defined command support In addition to using $arg0..$arg9 for argument passing, it is now possible to use $argc to determine now many arguments have been passed. See the section on user-defined commands in the user manual for more information. You can download GDB from the GNU FTP server in the directory: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb The vital stats: Size md5sum Name 14mb f62c14ba0316bc88e1b4b32a4e901ffb gdb-6.4.tar.bz2 18mb 7dc98022ee96bba5331f195dc8a5491a gdb-6.4.tar.gz There is a web page for GDB at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ That page includes information about GDB mailing lists (an announcement mailing list, developers discussion lists, etc.), details on how to access GDB's CVS repository, locations for development snapshots, preformatted documentation, and links to related information around the net. We will put errata notes and host-specific tips for this release on-line as any problems come up. All mailing lists archives are also browsable via the web. This release is the result of a team effort of many individuals who have contributed to this project. This includes: Alan Modra, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Cagney, Andrew Stubbs, Anthony Green, Baurzhan Ismagulov, Ben Elliston, Bob Rossi, Chris Demetriou, Christopher Faylor, Corinna Vinschen, Daniel Jacobowitz, David Lecomber, David S. Miller, David Ung, Elena Zannoni, Eli Zaretskii, Eric Christopher, Fred Fish, Frederic Riss, H.J. Lu, Hans-Peter Nilsson, Ian Lance Taylor, James E Wilson, Jan Beulich, Jason Thorpe, Jeff Johnston, Jerome Guitton, Jim Blandy, Jim Wilson, Joel Brobecker, John David Anglin, Jon Beniston, Kaveh R. Ghazi, Kei Sakamoto, Kevin Buettner, Kris Warkentin, Manoj Iyer, Mark Kettenis, Mark Mitchell, Martin Hunt, Michael Snyder, Nathan Sidwell, Nick Roberts, Orjan Friberg, Paul Brook, Paul Gilliam, Paul N. Hilfinger, Ramana Radhakrishnan, Randolph Chung, Richard Earnshaw, Richard Henderson, Richard Sandiford, Stephane Carrez, Steve Ellcey, Thiemo Seufer, Ulrich Weigand, Wu Zhou, Yoshinori Sato. Thank you! -- Joel