From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Syd Polk To: insight-announce@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Insight 5.0 Released! Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 20:51:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.2.0.58.20000609123754.00c1b100@pop.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00001.html In tandem with the GDB 5.0 release, we have release Insight 5.0. This is the first non-beta release of Insight, and we hope that you can give it a look. You can download Insight from Red Hat's sources site: ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gdb/releases The vital stats: -r--r--r-- 1 ftp gdb 18824909 May 18 23:40 insight-5.0.tar.gz The md5sum checksum: dcc0378892e7a23dd07f1a14539ea258 There is an official web page for Insight: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/insight/ That page includes information about Insight mailing lists (an announcement mailing list, developers discussion lists, etc.), details on how to access Insights'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. Many people have contributed to this release. Thanks to everybody for the help! Keep those fixes and improvements coming in! (Send them to gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com) Syd Polk (Red Hat) on behalf of the Insight and GDB Teams. Insight is based on GDB 5.0; the GDB 5.0 release information follows. ------------------------------------ GDB 5.0 is released! Version 5.0 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous FTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for C, C++, and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e. debug programs running on) dozens of different processor architectures, and GDB itself can run on most popular Unix variants, Windows NT, and Windows 95. You can download GDB from either Project GNU's FTP server, or Red Hat's sources site: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gdb/releases The previous version, 4.18, was released about a year ago; there have been many changes and additions since then. Details below. The vital stats: -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 12299318 May 19 14:01 gdb-5.0.tar.gz The md5sum checksum: 9511b69b6b5a3b38c62ad207b3c94673 gdb-5.0.tar.gz There is a web page for GDB at: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/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. Many people have contributed to this release. Thanks to everybody for the help! Keep those fixes and improvements coming in! (Send them to bug-gdb@gnu.org) Andrew Cagney (Red Hat) on behalf of the GDB Team. *** Changes in GDB 5.0: * Improved support for debugging FP programs on x86 targets Unified and much-improved support for debugging floating-point programs on all x86 targets. In particular, ``info float'' now displays the FP registers in the same format on all x86 targets, with greater level of detail. * Improvements and bugfixes in hardware-assisted watchpoints It is now possible to watch array elements, struct members, and bitfields with hardware-assisted watchpoints. Data-read watchpoints on x86 targets no longer erroneously trigger when the address is written. * Improvements in the native DJGPP version of GDB The distribution now includes all the scripts and auxiliary files necessary to build the native DJGPP version on MS-DOS/MS-Windows machines ``out of the box''. The DJGPP version can now debug programs that use signals. It is possible to catch signals that happened in the debuggee, deliver signals to it, interrupt it with Ctrl-C, etc. (Previously, a signal would kill the program being debugged.) Programs that hook hardware interrupts (keyboard, timer, etc.) can also be debugged. It is now possible to debug DJGPP programs that redirect their standard handles or switch them to raw (as opposed to cooked) mode, or even close them. The command ``run < foo > bar'' works as expected, and ``info terminal'' reports useful information about the debuggee's terminal, including raw/cooked mode, redirection, etc. The DJGPP version now uses termios functions for console I/O, which enables debugging graphics programs. Interrupting GDB with Ctrl-C also works. DOS-style file names with drive letters are now fully supported by GDB. It is now possible to debug DJGPP programs that switch their working directory. It is also possible to rerun the debuggee any number of times without restarting GDB; thus, you can use the same setup, breakpoints, etc. for many debugging sessions. * New native configurations ARM GNU/Linux arm*-*-linux* PowerPC GNU/Linux powerpc-*-linux* * New targets Motorola MCore mcore-*-* x86 VxWorks i[3456]86-*-vxworks* PowerPC VxWorks powerpc-*-vxworks* TI TMS320C80 tic80-*-* * OBSOLETE configurations Altos 3068 m68*-altos-* Convex c1-*-*, c2-*-* Pyramid pyramid-*-* ARM RISCix arm-*-* (as host) Tahoe tahoe-*-* Configurations that have been declared obsolete will be commented out, but the code will be left in place. If there is no activity to revive these configurations before the next release of GDB, the sources will be permanently REMOVED. * Gould support removed Support for the Gould PowerNode and NP1 has been removed. * New features for SVR4 On SVR4 native platforms (such as Solaris), if you attach to a process without first loading a symbol file, GDB will now attempt to locate and load symbols from the running process's executable file. * Many C++ enhancements C++ support has been greatly improved. Overload resolution now works properly in almost all cases. RTTI support is on the way. * Remote targets can connect to a sub-program A popen(3) style serial-device has been added. This device starts a sub-process (such as a stand-alone simulator) and then communicates with that. The sub-program to run is specified using the syntax ``| '' vis: (gdb) set remotedebug 1 (gdb) target extended-remote |mn10300-elf-sim program-args * MIPS 64 remote protocol A long standing bug in the mips64 remote protocol where by GDB expected certain 32 bit registers (ex SR) to be transfered as 32 instead of 64 bits has been fixed. The command ``set remote-mips64-transfers-32bit-regs on'' has been added to provide backward compatibility with older versions of GDB. * ``set remotebinarydownload'' replaced by ``set remote X-packet'' The command ``set remotebinarydownload'' command has been replaced by ``set remote X-packet''. Other commands in ``set remote'' family include ``set remote P-packet''. * Breakpoint commands accept ranges. The breakpoint commands ``enable'', ``disable'', and ``delete'' now accept a range of breakpoints, e.g. ``5-7''. The tracepoint command ``tracepoint passcount'' also accepts a range of tracepoints. * ``apropos'' command added. The ``apropos'' command searches through command names and documentation strings, printing out matches, making it much easier to try to find a command that does what you are looking for. * New MI interface A new machine oriented interface (MI) has been added to GDB. This interface is designed for debug environments running GDB as a separate process. This is part of the long term libGDB project. See the "GDB/MI" chapter of the GDB manual for further information. It can be enabled by configuring with: .../configure --enable-gdbmi