GDB 7.10 released!

GDB 7.10 released!

[Joel Brobecker]

            GDB 7.10 released!

Release 7.10 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
  18MiB  2a35bac41fa8e10bf04f3a0dd7f7f363  gdb-7.10.tar.xz
  32MiB  fa6827ad0fd2be1daa418abb11a54d86  gdb-7.10.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 source 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 7.10 brings new targets, features and improvements, including:

   * Improved support for accessing shared libraries directly from
     the target system when debugging remotely.

   * Various Guile and Python scripting improvements, including (but not
     limited to):

     ** Support for auto-loading Python/Guile scripts contained
        in a special section named `.debug_gdb_scripts'.

     ** Support for writing a frame unwinder in Python.

   * Support for record-replay and reverse debugging on Aarch64 Linux.

   * GDB now has support for fork events on extended-remote Linux targets
     (Linux kernels 2.5.60 and later).

   * Support for DTrace USDT (Userland Static Defined Tracing) probes
     on x86_64 GNU/Linux targets.

   * Vector ABI support on S/390 GNU/Linux targets.

   * GDB now reads the GDBHISTSIZE environment variable rather than
     HISTSIZE to determine the size of GDB's command history.

   * Support for setting the parity when connecting to the target
     using a serial interface.

   * It is now possible to limit the number of candidates to be
     considered during completion.

   * Support for Sun's version of the "stabs" debug file format
     has been removed.

   * Support for the following targets and native configurations has
     been removed:

     ** HP/PA running HP-UX (hppa*-*-hpux*)
     ** Itanium running HP-UX (ia64-*-hpux*)

     Support for the "-xdb" command-line switch (HP-UX XDB compatibility
     mode) has also been removed.

For a complete list and more details on each item, please see the
gdb/NEWS file.

-- 
Joel Brobecker