From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5623 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2012 13:18:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 16390 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Nov 2012 13:12:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:18:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-announce@sourceware.org Subject: GDB 7.5.1 released! Message-ID: <20121129131213.GA21542@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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: 2012/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 GDB 7.5.1 released! Release 7.5.1 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 21MB 3f48f468b24447cf24820054ff6e85b1 gdb-7.5.1.tar.bz2 28MB b1519bf899890d21d4774845a6e602fe gdb-7.5.1.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 7.5.1 is a minor corrective release over GDB 7.5, and includes fixes for the following problems: - strict-aliasing warnings in libiberty/md5.c generated by GCC 4.7. - An "Attempt to dereference a generic pointer" error (-var-create). This error only occurs when the "print object" setting is "on". - Backtrace problems on x32 (PR backtrace/14646). - next/step/finish problems on x32 (PR gdb/14647). - A "malformed linespec error: unexpected keyword, [...]" error (PR breakpoints/14643) - GDB crash while stepping through powerpc (32bits) code. - A failed assertion in linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx. - A "!frame_id_inlined_p (frame_id)" failed assertion. - A "No more reverse-execution history." error during reverse "next" execution (PR 14548). - Incomplete command descriptions in "apropos" output. - PR gdb/14494 (a GDB crash difficult to characterize). - A build warning in allocate_symtab when building on x86_64-windows. GDB 7.5.1 also brings the following improvements: - Offer some helpful tips when detecting a file/script for which auto-loading has been declined. - Special handling of program's '.exe' suffix when searching for auto-load-able scripts. GDB 7.5 brings new targets, features and improvements, including: * Go language support. * New targets (x32 ABI, microMIPS, Renesas RL78, HP OpenVMS ia64). * More Python scripting improvements. * SDT (Static Defined Tracing) probes support with SystemTap probes. * GDBserver improvements (stdio connections, target-side evaluation of breakpoint conditions, remote protocol improvements). * Other miscellaneous improvements (ability to stop when a shared library is loaded/unloaded, dynamic printf, etc). * Reverse debugging on ARM. * The binary "gdbtui" has been abandoned and can no longer be built. Use "gdb -tui" instead. For a complete list and more details on each item, please see the gdb/NEWS file. -- Joel