From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7975 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 2006 07:23:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 6276 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jun 2006 07:21:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:23:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-announce@sourceware.org Subject: GDB 6.5 released ! Message-ID: <20060621072053.GA22750@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: 2006/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 GDB 6.5 released! Release 6.5 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. 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 af6c8335230d7604aee0803b1df14f54 gdb-6.5.tar.bz2 19mb 3b171256a216a53616b016d47e5cff63 gdb-6.5.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. Since the previous release (6.4, released on December 2005) we've made many fixes and enhancements including: * New targets Renesas M32C/M16C m32c-elf Morpho Technologies ms1 ms1-elf * New commands init-if-undefined Initialize a convenience variable, but only if it doesn't already have a value. The following commands are presently only implemented for native GNU/Linux: checkpoint Save a snapshot of the program state. restart Return the program state to a previously saved state. info checkpoints List currently saved checkpoints. delete-checkpoint Delete a previously saved checkpoint. set|show detach-on-fork Tell gdb whether to detach from a newly forked process, or to keep debugging it. info forks List forks of the user program that are available to be debugged. fork Switch to debugging one of several forks of the user program that are available to be debugged. delete-fork Delete a fork from the list of forks that are available to be debugged (and kill the forked process). detach-fork Delete a fork from the list of forks that are available to be debugged (and allow the process to continue). * New architecture Morpho Technologies ms2 ms1-elf * Improved Windows host support GDB now builds as a cross debugger hosted on i686-mingw32, including native console support, and remote communications using either network sockets or serial ports. * Improved Modula-2 language support GDB can now print most types in the Modula-2 syntax. This includes: basic types, set types, record types, enumerated types, range types, pointer types and ARRAY types. Procedure var parameters are correctly printed and hexadecimal addresses and character constants are also written in the Modula-2 syntax. Best results can be obtained by using GNU Modula-2 together with the -gdwarf-2 command line option. * REMOVED features The ARM rdi-share module. The Netware NLM debug server. This release is the result of a team effort of many individuals who have contributed to this project. This includes: Adrien Kunysz, Alan Modra, Alexandre Oliva, Alfred M. Szmidt, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Stubbs, Ben Elliston, Charles Wilson, Christopher Faylor, Corinna Vinschen, Daniel Jacobowitz, David S. Miller, Eli Zaretskii, Fred Fish, Frederic Riss, Gaius Mulley, Jim Blandy, Joel Brobecker, Kevin Buettner, Khem Raj, Mark Kettenis, Mark Mitchell, Masaki Muranaka, Michael Snyder, Nathan J. Williams, Nathan Sidwell, Nick Roberts, Paul Brook, Paul Gilliam, Paul N. Hilfinger, Randolph Chung, Roger Sayle, Serge Chatroux, Steve Ellcey, Ulrich Weigand, Vladimir Prus, Wu Zhou -- Joel