From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5746 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2008 19:38:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 5384 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Mar 2008 19:37:12 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:38:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-announce@sourceware.org Subject: GDB 6.8 released! Message-ID: <20080327193635.GG8005@adacore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-announce-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-announce-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 GDB 6.8 released! Release 6.8 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous FTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal 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 15MB c9da266b884fb8fa54df786dfaadbc7a gdb-6.8.tar.bz2 20MB 925695333524108291dc4012c4c9cbb8 gdb-6.8.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. GDB 6.8 brings many fixes and enhancements over the previous major release (6.7.1, released in October 2007), including: * GDB now supports the --enable-targets= configure option to allow building a single GDB executable that supports multiple remote target architectures. * GDB now supports breakpoints with multiple locations, including breakpoints on C++ constructors, inside C++ templates, and in inlined functions. * GDB now supports debugging C and C++ programs which use the Decimal Floating Point extension. In addition, the PowerPC target now has a set of pseudo-registers to inspect decimal float values stored in two consecutive float registers. * Improved support for debugging Ada Many improvements to the Ada language support have been made. These include: - Better support for Ada2005 interface types - Improved handling of arrays and slices in general - Better support for Taft-amendment types - The '{type} ADDRESS' expression is now allowed on the left hand-side of an assignment - Improved command completion in Ada - Several bug fixes * Pending breakpoints no longer change their number when their address is resolved. * GDB's ability to debug optimized code has been improved. GDB more accurately identifies function bodies and lexical blocks that occupy more than one contiguous range of addresses. * Target descriptions can now describe registers for PowerPC. * GDB on GNU/Linux and HP/UX can now debug through "exec" of a new process. The following new commands have been added: set print frame-arguments (all|scalars|none) show print frame-arguments The value of this variable can be changed to control which argument values should be printed by the debugger when displaying a frame. remote put remote get remote delete Transfer files to and from a remote target, and delete remote files. GDB/MI interface improvements: * The -break-insert MI command can optionally create pending breakpoints now. * New MI commands: -target-file-put -target-file-get -target-file-delete Transfer files to and from a remote target, and delete remote files. Support for the following new native configurations have been added: x86/Windows i[34567]86-*-mingw32* NetBSD/hppa hppa*-*netbsd* Xtensa GNU/Linux xtensa*-*-linux* Support for the following targets has been added: NetBSD/hppa hppa*-*-netbsd* Xtensa GNU/Linux xtensa*-*-linux* The following improvements were made to gdbserver, the GDB remote stub: * Target descriptions can now describe registers for PowerPC * Support for AltiVec and SPE registers have been added * Thread debugger on GNU/Linux has been added even when libthread_db is not available. * New file transfer commands introduced (remote put, remote get, and remote delete) * Support for run and attach in extended-remote mode. Some other removed features: * Attaching to a program using the '-c' command line switch is no longer supported. Instead, using the '-p' or '--pid' option. -- Joel