| 1 | What has changed in GDB? |
| 2 | (Organized release by release) |
| 3 | |
| 4 | *** Changes since GDB 5.2: |
| 5 | |
| 6 | * ``gdbserver'' now supports multithreaded applications on some targets |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Support for multithreaded applications using LinuxThreads has been added |
| 9 | for arm*-*-linux*, i[3456]86-*-linux*, mips*-*-linux*, powerpc*-*-linux*, |
| 10 | and sh*-*-linux*. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * GDB now supports C/C++ preprocessor macros. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | GDB now expands preprocessor macro invocations in C/C++ expressions, |
| 15 | and provides various commands for showing macro definitions and how |
| 16 | they expand. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Most compilers don't include information about macros in the debugging |
| 19 | information by default. In GCC 3.1, for example, you need to compile |
| 20 | your program with the options `-gdwarf-2 -g3'. If the macro |
| 21 | information is present in the executable, GDB will read it. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Here are the new commands for working with macros: |
| 24 | |
| 25 | ** macro expand EXPRESSION |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Expand any macro invocations in expression, and show the result. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | ** show macro MACRO-NAME |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Show the definition of the macro named MACRO-NAME, and where it was |
| 32 | defined. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | * Multi-arched targets. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | DEC Alpha (partial) alpha*-*-* |
| 37 | DEC VAX (partial) vax-*-* |
| 38 | NEC V850 v850-*-* |
| 39 | National Semiconductor NS32000 (partial) ns32k-*-* |
| 40 | Motorola 68000 (partial) m68k-*-* |
| 41 | Motorola MCORE mcore-*-* |
| 42 | |
| 43 | * New targets. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat frv*-*-* |
| 46 | |
| 47 | |
| 48 | * New native configurations |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Alpha NetBSD alpha*-*-netbsd* |
| 51 | SH NetBSD sh*-*-netbsdelf* |
| 52 | MIPS NetBSD mips*-*-netbsd* |
| 53 | UltraSPARC NetBSD sparc64-*-netbsd* |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * OBSOLETE configurations and files |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Configurations that have been declared obsolete in this release have |
| 58 | been commented out. Unless there is activity to revive these |
| 59 | configurations, the next release of GDB will have their sources |
| 60 | permanently REMOVED. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | Mitsubishi D30V d30v-*-* |
| 63 | OS/9000 i[34]86-*-os9k |
| 64 | Fujitsu FR30 fr30-*-elf* |
| 65 | Motorola Delta 88000 running Sys V m88k-motorola-sysv or delta88 |
| 66 | |
| 67 | * REMOVED configurations and files |
| 68 | |
| 69 | AMD 29k family via UDI a29k-amd-udi, udi29k |
| 70 | A29K VxWorks a29k-*-vxworks |
| 71 | AMD 29000 embedded, using EBMON a29k-none-none |
| 72 | AMD 29000 embedded with COFF a29k-none-coff |
| 73 | AMD 29000 embedded with a.out a29k-none-aout |
| 74 | |
| 75 | testsuite/gdb.hp/gdb.threads-hp/ directory |
| 76 | |
| 77 | * New command "set max-user-call-depth <nnn>" |
| 78 | |
| 79 | This command allows the user to limit the call depth of user-defined |
| 80 | commands. The default is 1024. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | * Changes in FreeBSD/i386 native debugging. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Support for the "generate-core-file" has been added. |
| 85 | |
| 86 | * New commands "dump", "append", and "restore". |
| 87 | |
| 88 | These commands allow data to be copied from target memory |
| 89 | to a bfd-format or binary file (dump and append), and back |
| 90 | from a file into memory (restore). |
| 91 | |
| 92 | *** Changes in GDB 5.2.1: |
| 93 | |
| 94 | * New targets. |
| 95 | |
| 96 | Atmel AVR avr*-*-* |
| 97 | |
| 98 | * Bug fixes |
| 99 | |
| 100 | gdb/182: gdb/323: gdb/237: On alpha, gdb was reporting: |
| 101 | mdebugread.c:2443: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_data not initialized |
| 102 | Fix, by Joel Brobecker imported from mainline. |
| 103 | |
| 104 | gdb/439: gdb/291: On some ELF object files, gdb was reporting: |
| 105 | dwarf2read.c:1072: gdb-internal-error: sect_index_text not initialize |
| 106 | Fix, by Fred Fish, imported from mainline. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | Dwarf2 .debug_frame & .eh_frame handler improved in many ways. |
| 109 | Surprisingly enough, it works now. |
| 110 | By Michal Ludvig, imported from mainline. |
| 111 | |
| 112 | i386 hardware watchpoint support: |
| 113 | avoid misses on second run for some targets. |
| 114 | By Pierre Muller, imported from mainline. |
| 115 | |
| 116 | *** Changes in GDB 5.2: |
| 117 | |
| 118 | * New command "set trust-readonly-sections on[off]". |
| 119 | |
| 120 | This command is a hint that tells gdb that read-only sections |
| 121 | really are read-only (ie. that their contents will not change). |
| 122 | In this mode, gdb will go to the object file rather than the |
| 123 | target to read memory from read-only sections (such as ".text"). |
| 124 | This can be a significant performance improvement on some |
| 125 | (notably embedded) targets. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | * New command "generate-core-file" (or "gcore"). |
| 128 | |
| 129 | This new gdb command allows the user to drop a core file of the child |
| 130 | process state at any time. So far it's been implemented only for |
| 131 | GNU/Linux and Solaris, but should be relatively easily ported to other |
| 132 | hosts. Argument is core file name (defaults to core.<pid>). |
| 133 | |
| 134 | * New command line option |
| 135 | |
| 136 | GDB now accepts --pid or -p followed by a process id. |
| 137 | |
| 138 | * Change in command line behavior -- corefiles vs. process ids. |
| 139 | |
| 140 | There is a subtle behavior in the way in which GDB handles |
| 141 | command line arguments. The first non-flag argument is always |
| 142 | a program to debug, but the second non-flag argument may either |
| 143 | be a corefile or a process id. Previously, GDB would attempt to |
| 144 | open the second argument as a corefile, and if that failed, would |
| 145 | issue a superfluous error message and then attempt to attach it as |
| 146 | a process. Now, if the second argument begins with a non-digit, |
| 147 | it will be treated as a corefile. If it begins with a digit, |
| 148 | GDB will attempt to attach it as a process, and if no such process |
| 149 | is found, will then attempt to open it as a corefile. |
| 150 | |
| 151 | * Changes in ARM configurations. |
| 152 | |
| 153 | Multi-arch support is enabled for all ARM configurations. The ARM/NetBSD |
| 154 | configuration is fully multi-arch. |
| 155 | |
| 156 | * New native configurations |
| 157 | |
| 158 | ARM NetBSD arm*-*-netbsd* |
| 159 | x86 OpenBSD i[3456]86-*-openbsd* |
| 160 | AMD x86-64 running GNU/Linux x86_64-*-linux-* |
| 161 | Sparc64 running FreeBSD sparc64-*-freebsd* |
| 162 | |
| 163 | * New targets |
| 164 | |
| 165 | Sanyo XStormy16 xstormy16-elf |
| 166 | |
| 167 | * OBSOLETE configurations and files |
| 168 | |
| 169 | Configurations that have been declared obsolete in this release have |
| 170 | been commented out. Unless there is activity to revive these |
| 171 | configurations, the next release of GDB will have their sources |
| 172 | permanently REMOVED. |
| 173 | |
| 174 | AMD 29k family via UDI a29k-amd-udi, udi29k |
| 175 | A29K VxWorks a29k-*-vxworks |
| 176 | AMD 29000 embedded, using EBMON a29k-none-none |
| 177 | AMD 29000 embedded with COFF a29k-none-coff |
| 178 | AMD 29000 embedded with a.out a29k-none-aout |
| 179 | |
| 180 | testsuite/gdb.hp/gdb.threads-hp/ directory |
| 181 | |
| 182 | * REMOVED configurations and files |
| 183 | |
| 184 | TI TMS320C80 tic80-*-* |
| 185 | WDC 65816 w65-*-* |
| 186 | PowerPC Solaris powerpcle-*-solaris* |
| 187 | PowerPC Windows NT powerpcle-*-cygwin32 |
| 188 | PowerPC Netware powerpc-*-netware* |
| 189 | Harris/CXUX m88k m88*-harris-cxux* |
| 190 | Most ns32k hosts and targets ns32k-*-mach3* ns32k-umax-* |
| 191 | ns32k-utek-sysv* ns32k-utek-* |
| 192 | SunOS 4.0.Xi on i386 i[3456]86-*-sunos* |
| 193 | Ultracomputer (29K) running Sym1 a29k-nyu-sym1 a29k-*-kern* |
| 194 | Sony NEWS (68K) running NEWSOS 3.x m68*-sony-sysv news |
| 195 | ISI Optimum V (3.05) under 4.3bsd. m68*-isi-* |
| 196 | Apple Macintosh (MPW) host and target N/A host, powerpc-*-macos* |
| 197 | |
| 198 | * Changes to command line processing |
| 199 | |
| 200 | The new `--args' feature can be used to specify command-line arguments |
| 201 | for the inferior from gdb's command line. |
| 202 | |
| 203 | * Changes to key bindings |
| 204 | |
| 205 | There is a new `operate-and-get-next' function bound to `C-o'. |
| 206 | |
| 207 | *** Changes in GDB 5.1.1 |
| 208 | |
| 209 | Fix compile problem on DJGPP. |
| 210 | |
| 211 | Fix a problem with floating-point registers on the i386 being |
| 212 | corrupted. |
| 213 | |
| 214 | Fix to stop GDB crashing on .debug_str debug info. |
| 215 | |
| 216 | Numerous documentation fixes. |
| 217 | |
| 218 | Numerous testsuite fixes. |
| 219 | |
| 220 | *** Changes in GDB 5.1: |
| 221 | |
| 222 | * New native configurations |
| 223 | |
| 224 | Alpha FreeBSD alpha*-*-freebsd* |
| 225 | x86 FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x i[3456]86*-freebsd[34]* |
| 226 | MIPS GNU/Linux mips*-*-linux* |
| 227 | MIPS SGI Irix 6.x mips*-sgi-irix6* |
| 228 | ia64 AIX ia64-*-aix* |
| 229 | s390 and s390x GNU/Linux {s390,s390x}-*-linux* |
| 230 | |
| 231 | * New targets |
| 232 | |
| 233 | Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12 m68hc11-elf |
| 234 | CRIS cris-axis |
| 235 | UltraSparc running GNU/Linux sparc64-*-linux* |
| 236 | |
| 237 | * OBSOLETE configurations and files |
| 238 | |
| 239 | x86 FreeBSD before 2.2 i[3456]86*-freebsd{1,2.[01]}*, |
| 240 | Harris/CXUX m88k m88*-harris-cxux* |
| 241 | Most ns32k hosts and targets ns32k-*-mach3* ns32k-umax-* |
| 242 | ns32k-utek-sysv* ns32k-utek-* |
| 243 | TI TMS320C80 tic80-*-* |
| 244 | WDC 65816 w65-*-* |
| 245 | Ultracomputer (29K) running Sym1 a29k-nyu-sym1 a29k-*-kern* |
| 246 | PowerPC Solaris powerpcle-*-solaris* |
| 247 | PowerPC Windows NT powerpcle-*-cygwin32 |
| 248 | PowerPC Netware powerpc-*-netware* |
| 249 | SunOS 4.0.Xi on i386 i[3456]86-*-sunos* |
| 250 | Sony NEWS (68K) running NEWSOS 3.x m68*-sony-sysv news |
| 251 | ISI Optimum V (3.05) under 4.3bsd. m68*-isi-* |
| 252 | Apple Macintosh (MPW) host N/A |
| 253 | |
| 254 | stuff.c (Program to stuff files into a specially prepared space in kdb) |
| 255 | kdb-start.c (Main loop for the standalone kernel debugger) |
| 256 | |
| 257 | Configurations that have been declared obsolete in this release have |
| 258 | been commented out. Unless there is activity to revive these |
| 259 | configurations, the next release of GDB will have their sources |
| 260 | permanently REMOVED. |
| 261 | |
| 262 | * REMOVED configurations and files |
| 263 | |
| 264 | Altos 3068 m68*-altos-* |
| 265 | Convex c1-*-*, c2-*-* |
| 266 | Pyramid pyramid-*-* |
| 267 | ARM RISCix arm-*-* (as host) |
| 268 | Tahoe tahoe-*-* |
| 269 | ser-ocd.c *-*-* |
| 270 | |
| 271 | * GDB has been converted to ISO C. |
| 272 | |
| 273 | GDB's source code has been converted to ISO C. In particular, the |
| 274 | sources are fully protoized, and rely on standard headers being |
| 275 | present. |
| 276 | |
| 277 | * Other news: |
| 278 | |
| 279 | * "info symbol" works on platforms which use COFF, ECOFF, XCOFF, and NLM. |
| 280 | |
| 281 | * The MI enabled by default. |
| 282 | |
| 283 | The new machine oriented interface (MI) introduced in GDB 5.0 has been |
| 284 | revised and enabled by default. Packages which use GDB as a debugging |
| 285 | engine behind a UI or another front end are encouraged to switch to |
| 286 | using the GDB/MI interface, instead of the old annotations interface |
| 287 | which is now deprecated. |
| 288 | |
| 289 | * Support for debugging Pascal programs. |
| 290 | |
| 291 | GDB now includes support for debugging Pascal programs. The following |
| 292 | main features are supported: |
| 293 | |
| 294 | - Pascal-specific data types such as sets; |
| 295 | |
| 296 | - automatic recognition of Pascal sources based on file-name |
| 297 | extension; |
| 298 | |
| 299 | - Pascal-style display of data types, variables, and functions; |
| 300 | |
| 301 | - a Pascal expression parser. |
| 302 | |
| 303 | However, some important features are not yet supported. |
| 304 | |
| 305 | - Pascal string operations are not supported at all; |
| 306 | |
| 307 | - there are some problems with boolean types; |
| 308 | |
| 309 | - Pascal type hexadecimal constants are not supported |
| 310 | because they conflict with the internal variables format; |
| 311 | |
| 312 | - support for Pascal objects and classes is not full yet; |
| 313 | |
| 314 | - unlike Pascal, GDB is case-sensitive for symbol names. |
| 315 | |
| 316 | * Changes in completion. |
| 317 | |
| 318 | Commands such as `shell', `run' and `set args', which pass arguments |
| 319 | to inferior programs, now complete on file names, similar to what |
| 320 | users expect at the shell prompt. |
| 321 | |
| 322 | Commands which accept locations, such as `disassemble', `print', |
| 323 | `breakpoint', `until', etc. now complete on filenames as well as |
| 324 | program symbols. Thus, if you type "break foob TAB", and the source |
| 325 | files linked into the programs include `foobar.c', that file name will |
| 326 | be one of the candidates for completion. However, file names are not |
| 327 | considered for completion after you typed a colon that delimits a file |
| 328 | name from a name of a function in that file, as in "break foo.c:bar". |
| 329 | |
| 330 | `set demangle-style' completes on available demangling styles. |
| 331 | |
| 332 | * New platform-independent commands: |
| 333 | |
| 334 | It is now possible to define a post-hook for a command as well as a |
| 335 | hook that runs before the command. For more details, see the |
| 336 | documentation of `hookpost' in the GDB manual. |
| 337 | |
| 338 | * Changes in GNU/Linux native debugging. |
| 339 | |
| 340 | Support for debugging multi-threaded programs has been completely |
| 341 | revised for all platforms except m68k and sparc. You can now debug as |
| 342 | many threads as your system allows you to have. |
| 343 | |
| 344 | Attach/detach is supported for multi-threaded programs. |
| 345 | |
| 346 | Support for SSE registers was added for x86. This doesn't work for |
| 347 | multi-threaded programs though. |
| 348 | |
| 349 | * Changes in MIPS configurations. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | Multi-arch support is enabled for all MIPS configurations. |
| 352 | |
| 353 | GDB can now be built as native debugger on SGI Irix 6.x systems for |
| 354 | debugging n32 executables. (Debugging 64-bit executables is not yet |
| 355 | supported.) |
| 356 | |
| 357 | * Unified support for hardware watchpoints in all x86 configurations. |
| 358 | |
| 359 | Most (if not all) native x86 configurations support hardware-assisted |
| 360 | breakpoints and watchpoints in a unified manner. This support |
| 361 | implements debug register sharing between watchpoints, which allows to |
| 362 | put a virtually infinite number of watchpoints on the same address, |
| 363 | and also supports watching regions up to 16 bytes with several debug |
| 364 | registers. |
| 365 | |
| 366 | The new maintenance command `maintenance show-debug-regs' toggles |
| 367 | debugging print-outs in functions that insert, remove, and test |
| 368 | watchpoints and hardware breakpoints. |
| 369 | |
| 370 | * Changes in the DJGPP native configuration. |
| 371 | |
| 372 | New command ``info dos sysinfo'' displays assorted information about |
| 373 | the CPU, OS, memory, and DPMI server. |
| 374 | |
| 375 | New commands ``info dos gdt'', ``info dos ldt'', and ``info dos idt'' |
| 376 | display information about segment descriptors stored in GDT, LDT, and |
| 377 | IDT. |
| 378 | |
| 379 | New commands ``info dos pde'' and ``info dos pte'' display entries |
| 380 | from Page Directory and Page Tables (for now works with CWSDPMI only). |
| 381 | New command ``info dos address-pte'' displays the Page Table entry for |
| 382 | a given linear address. |
| 383 | |
| 384 | GDB can now pass command lines longer than 126 characters to the |
| 385 | program being debugged (requires an update to the libdbg.a library |
| 386 | which is part of the DJGPP development kit). |
| 387 | |
| 388 | DWARF2 debug info is now supported. |
| 389 | |
| 390 | It is now possible to `step' and `next' through calls to `longjmp'. |
| 391 | |
| 392 | * Changes in documentation. |
| 393 | |
| 394 | All GDB documentation was converted to GFDL, the GNU Free |
| 395 | Documentation License. |
| 396 | |
| 397 | Tracepoints-related commands are now fully documented in the GDB |
| 398 | manual. |
| 399 | |
| 400 | TUI, the Text-mode User Interface, is now documented in the manual. |
| 401 | |
| 402 | Tracepoints-related commands are now fully documented in the GDB |
| 403 | manual. |
| 404 | |
| 405 | The "GDB Internals" manual now has an index. It also includes |
| 406 | documentation of `ui_out' functions, GDB coding standards, x86 |
| 407 | hardware watchpoints, and memory region attributes. |
| 408 | |
| 409 | * GDB's version number moved to ``version.in'' |
| 410 | |
| 411 | The Makefile variable VERSION has been replaced by the file |
| 412 | ``version.in''. People creating GDB distributions should update the |
| 413 | contents of this file. |
| 414 | |
| 415 | * gdba.el deleted |
| 416 | |
| 417 | GUD support is now a standard part of the EMACS distribution. |
| 418 | |
| 419 | *** Changes in GDB 5.0: |
| 420 | |
| 421 | * Improved support for debugging FP programs on x86 targets |
| 422 | |
| 423 | Unified and much-improved support for debugging floating-point |
| 424 | programs on all x86 targets. In particular, ``info float'' now |
| 425 | displays the FP registers in the same format on all x86 targets, with |
| 426 | greater level of detail. |
| 427 | |
| 428 | * Improvements and bugfixes in hardware-assisted watchpoints |
| 429 | |
| 430 | It is now possible to watch array elements, struct members, and |
| 431 | bitfields with hardware-assisted watchpoints. Data-read watchpoints |
| 432 | on x86 targets no longer erroneously trigger when the address is |
| 433 | written. |
| 434 | |
| 435 | * Improvements in the native DJGPP version of GDB |
| 436 | |
| 437 | The distribution now includes all the scripts and auxiliary files |
| 438 | necessary to build the native DJGPP version on MS-DOS/MS-Windows |
| 439 | machines ``out of the box''. |
| 440 | |
| 441 | The DJGPP version can now debug programs that use signals. It is |
| 442 | possible to catch signals that happened in the debuggee, deliver |
| 443 | signals to it, interrupt it with Ctrl-C, etc. (Previously, a signal |
| 444 | would kill the program being debugged.) Programs that hook hardware |
| 445 | interrupts (keyboard, timer, etc.) can also be debugged. |
| 446 | |
| 447 | It is now possible to debug DJGPP programs that redirect their |
| 448 | standard handles or switch them to raw (as opposed to cooked) mode, or |
| 449 | even close them. The command ``run < foo > bar'' works as expected, |
| 450 | and ``info terminal'' reports useful information about the debuggee's |
| 451 | terminal, including raw/cooked mode, redirection, etc. |
| 452 | |
| 453 | The DJGPP version now uses termios functions for console I/O, which |
| 454 | enables debugging graphics programs. Interrupting GDB with Ctrl-C |
| 455 | also works. |
| 456 | |
| 457 | DOS-style file names with drive letters are now fully supported by |
| 458 | GDB. |
| 459 | |
| 460 | It is now possible to debug DJGPP programs that switch their working |
| 461 | directory. It is also possible to rerun the debuggee any number of |
| 462 | times without restarting GDB; thus, you can use the same setup, |
| 463 | breakpoints, etc. for many debugging sessions. |
| 464 | |
| 465 | * New native configurations |
| 466 | |
| 467 | ARM GNU/Linux arm*-*-linux* |
| 468 | PowerPC GNU/Linux powerpc-*-linux* |
| 469 | |
| 470 | * New targets |
| 471 | |
| 472 | Motorola MCore mcore-*-* |
| 473 | x86 VxWorks i[3456]86-*-vxworks* |
| 474 | PowerPC VxWorks powerpc-*-vxworks* |
| 475 | TI TMS320C80 tic80-*-* |
| 476 | |
| 477 | * OBSOLETE configurations |
| 478 | |
| 479 | Altos 3068 m68*-altos-* |
| 480 | Convex c1-*-*, c2-*-* |
| 481 | Pyramid pyramid-*-* |
| 482 | ARM RISCix arm-*-* (as host) |
| 483 | Tahoe tahoe-*-* |
| 484 | |
| 485 | Configurations that have been declared obsolete will be commented out, |
| 486 | but the code will be left in place. If there is no activity to revive |
| 487 | these configurations before the next release of GDB, the sources will |
| 488 | be permanently REMOVED. |
| 489 | |
| 490 | * Gould support removed |
| 491 | |
| 492 | Support for the Gould PowerNode and NP1 has been removed. |
| 493 | |
| 494 | * New features for SVR4 |
| 495 | |
| 496 | On SVR4 native platforms (such as Solaris), if you attach to a process |
| 497 | without first loading a symbol file, GDB will now attempt to locate and |
| 498 | load symbols from the running process's executable file. |
| 499 | |
| 500 | * Many C++ enhancements |
| 501 | |
| 502 | C++ support has been greatly improved. Overload resolution now works properly |
| 503 | in almost all cases. RTTI support is on the way. |
| 504 | |
| 505 | * Remote targets can connect to a sub-program |
| 506 | |
| 507 | A popen(3) style serial-device has been added. This device starts a |
| 508 | sub-process (such as a stand-alone simulator) and then communicates |
| 509 | with that. The sub-program to run is specified using the syntax |
| 510 | ``|<program> <args>'' vis: |
| 511 | |
| 512 | (gdb) set remotedebug 1 |
| 513 | (gdb) target extended-remote |mn10300-elf-sim program-args |
| 514 | |
| 515 | * MIPS 64 remote protocol |
| 516 | |
| 517 | A long standing bug in the mips64 remote protocol where by GDB |
| 518 | expected certain 32 bit registers (ex SR) to be transfered as 32 |
| 519 | instead of 64 bits has been fixed. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | The command ``set remote-mips64-transfers-32bit-regs on'' has been |
| 522 | added to provide backward compatibility with older versions of GDB. |
| 523 | |
| 524 | * ``set remotebinarydownload'' replaced by ``set remote X-packet'' |
| 525 | |
| 526 | The command ``set remotebinarydownload'' command has been replaced by |
| 527 | ``set remote X-packet''. Other commands in ``set remote'' family |
| 528 | include ``set remote P-packet''. |
| 529 | |
| 530 | * Breakpoint commands accept ranges. |
| 531 | |
| 532 | The breakpoint commands ``enable'', ``disable'', and ``delete'' now |
| 533 | accept a range of breakpoints, e.g. ``5-7''. The tracepoint command |
| 534 | ``tracepoint passcount'' also accepts a range of tracepoints. |
| 535 | |
| 536 | * ``apropos'' command added. |
| 537 | |
| 538 | The ``apropos'' command searches through command names and |
| 539 | documentation strings, printing out matches, making it much easier to |
| 540 | try to find a command that does what you are looking for. |
| 541 | |
| 542 | * New MI interface |
| 543 | |
| 544 | A new machine oriented interface (MI) has been added to GDB. This |
| 545 | interface is designed for debug environments running GDB as a separate |
| 546 | process. This is part of the long term libGDB project. See the |
| 547 | "GDB/MI" chapter of the GDB manual for further information. It can be |
| 548 | enabled by configuring with: |
| 549 | |
| 550 | .../configure --enable-gdbmi |
| 551 | |
| 552 | *** Changes in GDB-4.18: |
| 553 | |
| 554 | * New native configurations |
| 555 | |
| 556 | HP-UX 10.20 hppa*-*-hpux10.20 |
| 557 | HP-UX 11.x hppa*-*-hpux11.0* |
| 558 | M68K GNU/Linux m68*-*-linux* |
| 559 | |
| 560 | * New targets |
| 561 | |
| 562 | Fujitsu FR30 fr30-*-elf* |
| 563 | Intel StrongARM strongarm-*-* |
| 564 | Mitsubishi D30V d30v-*-* |
| 565 | |
| 566 | * OBSOLETE configurations |
| 567 | |
| 568 | Gould PowerNode, NP1 np1-*-*, pn-*-* |
| 569 | |
| 570 | Configurations that have been declared obsolete will be commented out, |
| 571 | but the code will be left in place. If there is no activity to revive |
| 572 | these configurations before the next release of GDB, the sources will |
| 573 | be permanently REMOVED. |
| 574 | |
| 575 | * ANSI/ISO C |
| 576 | |
| 577 | As a compatibility experiment, GDB's source files buildsym.h and |
| 578 | buildsym.c have been converted to pure standard C, no longer |
| 579 | containing any K&R compatibility code. We believe that all systems in |
| 580 | use today either come with a standard C compiler, or have a GCC port |
| 581 | available. If this is not true, please report the affected |
| 582 | configuration to bug-gdb@gnu.org immediately. See the README file for |
| 583 | information about getting a standard C compiler if you don't have one |
| 584 | already. |
| 585 | |
| 586 | * Readline 2.2 |
| 587 | |
| 588 | GDB now uses readline 2.2. |
| 589 | |
| 590 | * set extension-language |
| 591 | |
| 592 | You can now control the mapping between filename extensions and source |
| 593 | languages by using the `set extension-language' command. For instance, |
| 594 | you can ask GDB to treat .c files as C++ by saying |
| 595 | set extension-language .c c++ |
| 596 | The command `info extensions' lists all of the recognized extensions |
| 597 | and their associated languages. |
| 598 | |
| 599 | * Setting processor type for PowerPC and RS/6000 |
| 600 | |
| 601 | When GDB is configured for a powerpc*-*-* or an rs6000*-*-* target, |
| 602 | you can use the `set processor' command to specify what variant of the |
| 603 | PowerPC family you are debugging. The command |
| 604 | |
| 605 | set processor NAME |
| 606 | |
| 607 | sets the PowerPC/RS6000 variant to NAME. GDB knows about the |
| 608 | following PowerPC and RS6000 variants: |
| 609 | |
| 610 | ppc-uisa PowerPC UISA - a PPC processor as viewed by user-level code |
| 611 | rs6000 IBM RS6000 ("POWER") architecture, user-level view |
| 612 | 403 IBM PowerPC 403 |
| 613 | 403GC IBM PowerPC 403GC |
| 614 | 505 Motorola PowerPC 505 |
| 615 | 860 Motorola PowerPC 860 or 850 |
| 616 | 601 Motorola PowerPC 601 |
| 617 | 602 Motorola PowerPC 602 |
| 618 | 603 Motorola/IBM PowerPC 603 or 603e |
| 619 | 604 Motorola PowerPC 604 or 604e |
| 620 | 750 Motorola/IBM PowerPC 750 or 750 |
| 621 | |
| 622 | At the moment, this command just tells GDB what to name the |
| 623 | special-purpose processor registers. Since almost all the affected |
| 624 | registers are inaccessible to user-level programs, this command is |
| 625 | only useful for remote debugging in its present form. |
| 626 | |
| 627 | * HP-UX support |
| 628 | |
| 629 | Thanks to a major code donation from Hewlett-Packard, GDB now has much |
| 630 | more extensive support for HP-UX. Added features include shared |
| 631 | library support, kernel threads and hardware watchpoints for 11.00, |
| 632 | support for HP's ANSI C and C++ compilers, and a compatibility mode |
| 633 | for xdb and dbx commands. |
| 634 | |
| 635 | * Catchpoints |
| 636 | |
| 637 | HP's donation includes the new concept of catchpoints, which is a |
| 638 | generalization of the old catch command. On HP-UX, it is now possible |
| 639 | to catch exec, fork, and vfork, as well as library loading. |
| 640 | |
| 641 | This means that the existing catch command has changed; its first |
| 642 | argument now specifies the type of catch to be set up. See the |
| 643 | output of "help catch" for a list of catchpoint types. |
| 644 | |
| 645 | * Debugging across forks |
| 646 | |
| 647 | On HP-UX, you can choose which process to debug when a fork() happens |
| 648 | in the inferior. |
| 649 | |
| 650 | * TUI |
| 651 | |
| 652 | HP has donated a curses-based terminal user interface (TUI). To get |
| 653 | it, build with --enable-tui. Although this can be enabled for any |
| 654 | configuration, at present it only works for native HP debugging. |
| 655 | |
| 656 | * GDB remote protocol additions |
| 657 | |
| 658 | A new protocol packet 'X' that writes binary data is now available. |
| 659 | Default behavior is to try 'X', then drop back to 'M' if the stub |
| 660 | fails to respond. The settable variable `remotebinarydownload' |
| 661 | allows explicit control over the use of 'X'. |
| 662 | |
| 663 | For 64-bit targets, the memory packets ('M' and 'm') can now contain a |
| 664 | full 64-bit address. The command |
| 665 | |
| 666 | set remoteaddresssize 32 |
| 667 | |
| 668 | can be used to revert to the old behaviour. For existing remote stubs |
| 669 | the change should not be noticed, as the additional address information |
| 670 | will be discarded. |
| 671 | |
| 672 | In order to assist in debugging stubs, you may use the maintenance |
| 673 | command `packet' to send any text string to the stub. For instance, |
| 674 | |
| 675 | maint packet heythere |
| 676 | |
| 677 | sends the packet "$heythere#<checksum>". Note that it is very easy to |
| 678 | disrupt a debugging session by sending the wrong packet at the wrong |
| 679 | time. |
| 680 | |
| 681 | The compare-sections command allows you to compare section data on the |
| 682 | target to what is in the executable file without uploading or |
| 683 | downloading, by comparing CRC checksums. |
| 684 | |
| 685 | * Tracing can collect general expressions |
| 686 | |
| 687 | You may now collect general expressions at tracepoints. This requires |
| 688 | further additions to the target-side stub; see tracepoint.c and |
| 689 | doc/agentexpr.texi for further details. |
| 690 | |
| 691 | * mask-address variable for Mips |
| 692 | |
| 693 | For Mips targets, you may control the zeroing of the upper 32 bits of |
| 694 | a 64-bit address by entering `set mask-address on'. This is mainly |
| 695 | of interest to users of embedded R4xxx and R5xxx processors. |
| 696 | |
| 697 | * Higher serial baud rates |
| 698 | |
| 699 | GDB's serial code now allows you to specify baud rates 57600, 115200, |
| 700 | 230400, and 460800 baud. (Note that your host system may not be able |
| 701 | to achieve all of these rates.) |
| 702 | |
| 703 | * i960 simulator |
| 704 | |
| 705 | The i960 configuration now includes an initial implementation of a |
| 706 | builtin simulator, contributed by Jim Wilson. |
| 707 | |
| 708 | |
| 709 | *** Changes in GDB-4.17: |
| 710 | |
| 711 | * New native configurations |
| 712 | |
| 713 | Alpha GNU/Linux alpha*-*-linux* |
| 714 | Unixware 2.x i[3456]86-unixware2* |
| 715 | Irix 6.x mips*-sgi-irix6* |
| 716 | PowerPC GNU/Linux powerpc-*-linux* |
| 717 | PowerPC Solaris powerpcle-*-solaris* |
| 718 | Sparc GNU/Linux sparc-*-linux* |
| 719 | Motorola sysV68 R3V7.1 m68k-motorola-sysv |
| 720 | |
| 721 | * New targets |
| 722 | |
| 723 | Argonaut Risc Chip (ARC) arc-*-* |
| 724 | Hitachi H8/300S h8300*-*-* |
| 725 | Matsushita MN10200 w/simulator mn10200-*-* |
| 726 | Matsushita MN10300 w/simulator mn10300-*-* |
| 727 | MIPS NEC VR4100 mips64*vr4100*{,el}-*-elf* |
| 728 | MIPS NEC VR5000 mips64*vr5000*{,el}-*-elf* |
| 729 | MIPS Toshiba TX39 mips64*tx39*{,el}-*-elf* |
| 730 | Mitsubishi D10V w/simulator d10v-*-* |
| 731 | Mitsubishi M32R/D w/simulator m32r-*-elf* |
| 732 | Tsqware Sparclet sparclet-*-* |
| 733 | NEC V850 w/simulator v850-*-* |
| 734 | |
| 735 | * New debugging protocols |
| 736 | |
| 737 | ARM with RDI protocol arm*-*-* |
| 738 | M68K with dBUG monitor m68*-*-{aout,coff,elf} |
| 739 | DDB and LSI variants of PMON protocol mips*-*-* |
| 740 | PowerPC with DINK32 monitor powerpc{,le}-*-eabi |
| 741 | PowerPC with SDS protocol powerpc{,le}-*-eabi |
| 742 | Macraigor OCD (Wiggler) devices powerpc{,le}-*-eabi |
| 743 | |
| 744 | * DWARF 2 |
| 745 | |
| 746 | All configurations can now understand and use the DWARF 2 debugging |
| 747 | format. The choice is automatic, if the symbol file contains DWARF 2 |
| 748 | information. |
| 749 | |
| 750 | * Java frontend |
| 751 | |
| 752 | GDB now includes basic Java language support. This support is |
| 753 | only useful with Java compilers that produce native machine code. |
| 754 | |
| 755 | * solib-absolute-prefix and solib-search-path |
| 756 | |
| 757 | For SunOS and SVR4 shared libraries, you may now set the prefix for |
| 758 | loading absolute shared library symbol files, and the search path for |
| 759 | locating non-absolute shared library symbol files. |
| 760 | |
| 761 | * Live range splitting |
| 762 | |
| 763 | GDB can now effectively debug code for which GCC has performed live |
| 764 | range splitting as part of its optimization. See gdb/doc/LRS for |
| 765 | more details on the expected format of the stabs information. |
| 766 | |
| 767 | * Hurd support |
| 768 | |
| 769 | GDB's support for the GNU Hurd, including thread debugging, has been |
| 770 | updated to work with current versions of the Hurd. |
| 771 | |
| 772 | * ARM Thumb support |
| 773 | |
| 774 | GDB's ARM target configuration now handles the ARM7T (Thumb) 16-bit |
| 775 | instruction set. ARM GDB automatically detects when Thumb |
| 776 | instructions are in use, and adjusts disassembly and backtracing |
| 777 | accordingly. |
| 778 | |
| 779 | * MIPS16 support |
| 780 | |
| 781 | GDB's MIPS target configurations now handle the MIP16 16-bit |
| 782 | instruction set. |
| 783 | |
| 784 | * Overlay support |
| 785 | |
| 786 | GDB now includes support for overlays; if an executable has been |
| 787 | linked such that multiple sections are based at the same address, GDB |
| 788 | will decide which section to use for symbolic info. You can choose to |
| 789 | control the decision manually, using overlay commands, or implement |
| 790 | additional target-side support and use "overlay load-target" to bring |
| 791 | in the overlay mapping. Do "help overlay" for more detail. |
| 792 | |
| 793 | * info symbol |
| 794 | |
| 795 | The command "info symbol <address>" displays information about |
| 796 | the symbol at the specified address. |
| 797 | |
| 798 | * Trace support |
| 799 | |
| 800 | The standard remote protocol now includes an extension that allows |
| 801 | asynchronous collection and display of trace data. This requires |
| 802 | extensive support in the target-side debugging stub. Tracing mode |
| 803 | includes a new interaction mode in GDB and new commands: see the |
| 804 | file tracepoint.c for more details. |
| 805 | |
| 806 | * MIPS simulator |
| 807 | |
| 808 | Configurations for embedded MIPS now include a simulator contributed |
| 809 | by Cygnus Solutions. The simulator supports the instruction sets |
| 810 | of most MIPS variants. |
| 811 | |
| 812 | * Sparc simulator |
| 813 | |
| 814 | Sparc configurations may now include the ERC32 simulator contributed |
| 815 | by the European Space Agency. The simulator is not built into |
| 816 | Sparc targets by default; configure with --enable-sim to include it. |
| 817 | |
| 818 | * set architecture |
| 819 | |
| 820 | For target configurations that may include multiple variants of a |
| 821 | basic architecture (such as MIPS and SH), you may now set the |
| 822 | architecture explicitly. "set arch" sets, "info arch" lists |
| 823 | the possible architectures. |
| 824 | |
| 825 | *** Changes in GDB-4.16: |
| 826 | |
| 827 | * New native configurations |
| 828 | |
| 829 | Windows 95, x86 Windows NT i[345]86-*-cygwin32 |
| 830 | M68K NetBSD m68k-*-netbsd* |
| 831 | PowerPC AIX 4.x powerpc-*-aix* |
| 832 | PowerPC MacOS powerpc-*-macos* |
| 833 | PowerPC Windows NT powerpcle-*-cygwin32 |
| 834 | RS/6000 AIX 4.x rs6000-*-aix4* |
| 835 | |
| 836 | * New targets |
| 837 | |
| 838 | ARM with RDP protocol arm-*-* |
| 839 | I960 with MON960 i960-*-coff |
| 840 | MIPS VxWorks mips*-*-vxworks* |
| 841 | MIPS VR4300 with PMON mips64*vr4300{,el}-*-elf* |
| 842 | PowerPC with PPCBUG monitor powerpc{,le}-*-eabi* |
| 843 | Hitachi SH3 sh-*-* |
| 844 | Matra Sparclet sparclet-*-* |
| 845 | |
| 846 | * PowerPC simulator |
| 847 | |
| 848 | The powerpc-eabi configuration now includes the PSIM simulator, |
| 849 | contributed by Andrew Cagney, with assistance from Mike Meissner. |
| 850 | PSIM is a very elaborate model of the PowerPC, including not only |
| 851 | basic instruction set execution, but also details of execution unit |
| 852 | performance and I/O hardware. See sim/ppc/README for more details. |
| 853 | |
| 854 | * Solaris 2.5 |
| 855 | |
| 856 | GDB now works with Solaris 2.5. |
| 857 | |
| 858 | * Windows 95/NT native |
| 859 | |
| 860 | GDB will now work as a native debugger on Windows 95 and Windows NT. |
| 861 | To build it from source, you must use the "gnu-win32" environment, |
| 862 | which uses a DLL to emulate enough of Unix to run the GNU tools. |
| 863 | Further information, binaries, and sources are available at |
| 864 | ftp.cygnus.com, under pub/gnu-win32. |
| 865 | |
| 866 | * dont-repeat command |
| 867 | |
| 868 | If a user-defined command includes the command `dont-repeat', then the |
| 869 | command will not be repeated if the user just types return. This is |
| 870 | useful if the command is time-consuming to run, so that accidental |
| 871 | extra keystrokes don't run the same command many times. |
| 872 | |
| 873 | * Send break instead of ^C |
| 874 | |
| 875 | The standard remote protocol now includes an option to send a break |
| 876 | rather than a ^C to the target in order to interrupt it. By default, |
| 877 | GDB will send ^C; to send a break, set the variable `remotebreak' to 1. |
| 878 | |
| 879 | * Remote protocol timeout |
| 880 | |
| 881 | The standard remote protocol includes a new variable `remotetimeout' |
| 882 | that allows you to set the number of seconds before GDB gives up trying |
| 883 | to read from the target. The default value is 2. |
| 884 | |
| 885 | * Automatic tracking of dynamic object loading (HPUX and Solaris only) |
| 886 | |
| 887 | By default GDB will automatically keep track of objects as they are |
| 888 | loaded and unloaded by the dynamic linker. By using the command `set |
| 889 | stop-on-solib-events 1' you can arrange for GDB to stop the inferior |
| 890 | when shared library events occur, thus allowing you to set breakpoints |
| 891 | in shared libraries which are explicitly loaded by the inferior. |
| 892 | |
| 893 | Note this feature does not work on hpux8. On hpux9 you must link |
| 894 | /usr/lib/end.o into your program. This feature should work |
| 895 | automatically on hpux10. |
| 896 | |
| 897 | * Irix 5.x hardware watchpoint support |
| 898 | |
| 899 | Irix 5 configurations now support the use of hardware watchpoints. |
| 900 | |
| 901 | * Mips protocol "SYN garbage limit" |
| 902 | |
| 903 | When debugging a Mips target using the `target mips' protocol, you |
| 904 | may set the number of characters that GDB will ignore by setting |
| 905 | the `syn-garbage-limit'. A value of -1 means that GDB will ignore |
| 906 | every character. The default value is 1050. |
| 907 | |
| 908 | * Recording and replaying remote debug sessions |
| 909 | |
| 910 | If you set `remotelogfile' to the name of a file, gdb will write to it |
| 911 | a recording of a remote debug session. This recording may then be |
| 912 | replayed back to gdb using "gdbreplay". See gdbserver/README for |
| 913 | details. This is useful when you have a problem with GDB while doing |
| 914 | remote debugging; you can make a recording of the session and send it |
| 915 | to someone else, who can then recreate the problem. |
| 916 | |
| 917 | * Speedups for remote debugging |
| 918 | |
| 919 | GDB includes speedups for downloading and stepping MIPS systems using |
| 920 | the IDT monitor, fast downloads to the Hitachi SH E7000 emulator, |
| 921 | and more efficient S-record downloading. |
| 922 | |
| 923 | * Memory use reductions and statistics collection |
| 924 | |
| 925 | GDB now uses less memory and reports statistics about memory usage. |
| 926 | Try the `maint print statistics' command, for example. |
| 927 | |
| 928 | *** Changes in GDB-4.15: |
| 929 | |
| 930 | * Psymtabs for XCOFF |
| 931 | |
| 932 | The symbol reader for AIX GDB now uses partial symbol tables. This |
| 933 | can greatly improve startup time, especially for large executables. |
| 934 | |
| 935 | * Remote targets use caching |
| 936 | |
| 937 | Remote targets now use a data cache to speed up communication with the |
| 938 | remote side. The data cache could lead to incorrect results because |
| 939 | it doesn't know about volatile variables, thus making it impossible to |
| 940 | debug targets which use memory mapped I/O devices. `set remotecache |
| 941 | off' turns the the data cache off. |
| 942 | |
| 943 | * Remote targets may have threads |
| 944 | |
| 945 | The standard remote protocol now includes support for multiple threads |
| 946 | in the target system, using new protocol commands 'H' and 'T'. See |
| 947 | gdb/remote.c for details. |
| 948 | |
| 949 | * NetROM support |
| 950 | |
| 951 | If GDB is configured with `--enable-netrom', then it will include |
| 952 | support for the NetROM ROM emulator from XLNT Designs. The NetROM |
| 953 | acts as though it is a bank of ROM on the target board, but you can |
| 954 | write into it over the network. GDB's support consists only of |
| 955 | support for fast loading into the emulated ROM; to debug, you must use |
| 956 | another protocol, such as standard remote protocol. The usual |
| 957 | sequence is something like |
| 958 | |
| 959 | target nrom <netrom-hostname> |
| 960 | load <prog> |
| 961 | target remote <netrom-hostname>:1235 |
| 962 | |
| 963 | * Macintosh host |
| 964 | |
| 965 | GDB now includes support for the Apple Macintosh, as a host only. It |
| 966 | may be run as either an MPW tool or as a standalone application, and |
| 967 | it can debug through the serial port. All the usual GDB commands are |
| 968 | available, but to the target command, you must supply "serial" as the |
| 969 | device type instead of "/dev/ttyXX". See mpw-README in the main |
| 970 | directory for more information on how to build. The MPW configuration |
| 971 | scripts */mpw-config.in support only a few targets, and only the |
| 972 | mips-idt-ecoff target has been tested. |
| 973 | |
| 974 | * Autoconf |
| 975 | |
| 976 | GDB configuration now uses autoconf. This is not user-visible, |
| 977 | but does simplify configuration and building. |
| 978 | |
| 979 | * hpux10 |
| 980 | |
| 981 | GDB now supports hpux10. |
| 982 | |
| 983 | *** Changes in GDB-4.14: |
| 984 | |
| 985 | * New native configurations |
| 986 | |
| 987 | x86 FreeBSD i[345]86-*-freebsd |
| 988 | x86 NetBSD i[345]86-*-netbsd |
| 989 | NS32k NetBSD ns32k-*-netbsd |
| 990 | Sparc NetBSD sparc-*-netbsd |
| 991 | |
| 992 | * New targets |
| 993 | |
| 994 | A29K VxWorks a29k-*-vxworks |
| 995 | HP PA PRO embedded (WinBond W89K & Oki OP50N) hppa*-*-pro* |
| 996 | CPU32 EST-300 emulator m68*-*-est* |
| 997 | PowerPC ELF powerpc-*-elf |
| 998 | WDC 65816 w65-*-* |
| 999 | |
| 1000 | * Alpha OSF/1 support for procfs |
| 1001 | |
| 1002 | GDB now supports procfs under OSF/1-2.x and higher, which makes it |
| 1003 | possible to attach to running processes. As the mounting of the /proc |
| 1004 | filesystem is optional on the Alpha, GDB automatically determines |
| 1005 | the availability of /proc during startup. This can lead to problems |
| 1006 | if /proc is unmounted after GDB has been started. |
| 1007 | |
| 1008 | * Arguments to user-defined commands |
| 1009 | |
| 1010 | User commands may accept up to 10 arguments separated by whitespace. |
| 1011 | Arguments are accessed within the user command via $arg0..$arg9. A |
| 1012 | trivial example: |
| 1013 | define adder |
| 1014 | print $arg0 + $arg1 + $arg2 |
| 1015 | |
| 1016 | To execute the command use: |
| 1017 | adder 1 2 3 |
| 1018 | |
| 1019 | Defines the command "adder" which prints the sum of its three arguments. |
| 1020 | Note the arguments are text substitutions, so they may reference variables, |
| 1021 | use complex expressions, or even perform inferior function calls. |
| 1022 | |
| 1023 | * New `if' and `while' commands |
| 1024 | |
| 1025 | This makes it possible to write more sophisticated user-defined |
| 1026 | commands. Both commands take a single argument, which is the |
| 1027 | expression to evaluate, and must be followed by the commands to |
| 1028 | execute, one per line, if the expression is nonzero, the list being |
| 1029 | terminated by the word `end'. The `if' command list may include an |
| 1030 | `else' word, which causes the following commands to be executed only |
| 1031 | if the expression is zero. |
| 1032 | |
| 1033 | * Fortran source language mode |
| 1034 | |
| 1035 | GDB now includes partial support for Fortran 77. It will recognize |
| 1036 | Fortran programs and can evaluate a subset of Fortran expressions, but |
| 1037 | variables and functions may not be handled correctly. GDB will work |
| 1038 | with G77, but does not yet know much about symbols emitted by other |
| 1039 | Fortran compilers. |
| 1040 | |
| 1041 | * Better HPUX support |
| 1042 | |
| 1043 | Most debugging facilities now work on dynamic executables for HPPAs |
| 1044 | running hpux9 or later. You can attach to running dynamically linked |
| 1045 | processes, but by default the dynamic libraries will be read-only, so |
| 1046 | for instance you won't be able to put breakpoints in them. To change |
| 1047 | that behavior do the following before running the program: |
| 1048 | |
| 1049 | adb -w a.out |
| 1050 | __dld_flags?W 0x5 |
| 1051 | control-d |
| 1052 | |
| 1053 | This will cause the libraries to be mapped private and read-write. |
| 1054 | To revert to the normal behavior, do this: |
| 1055 | |
| 1056 | adb -w a.out |
| 1057 | __dld_flags?W 0x4 |
| 1058 | control-d |
| 1059 | |
| 1060 | You cannot set breakpoints or examine data in the library until after |
| 1061 | the library is loaded if the function/data symbols do not have |
| 1062 | external linkage. |
| 1063 | |
| 1064 | GDB can now also read debug symbols produced by the HP C compiler on |
| 1065 | HPPAs (sorry, no C++, Fortran or 68k support). |
| 1066 | |
| 1067 | * Target byte order now dynamically selectable |
| 1068 | |
| 1069 | You can choose which byte order to use with a target system, via the |
| 1070 | commands "set endian big" and "set endian little", and you can see the |
| 1071 | current setting by using "show endian". You can also give the command |
| 1072 | "set endian auto", in which case GDB will use the byte order |
| 1073 | associated with the executable. Currently, only embedded MIPS |
| 1074 | configurations support dynamic selection of target byte order. |
| 1075 | |
| 1076 | * New DOS host serial code |
| 1077 | |
| 1078 | This version uses DPMI interrupts to handle buffered I/O, so you |
| 1079 | no longer need to run asynctsr when debugging boards connected to |
| 1080 | a PC's serial port. |
| 1081 | |
| 1082 | *** Changes in GDB-4.13: |
| 1083 | |
| 1084 | * New "complete" command |
| 1085 | |
| 1086 | This lists all the possible completions for the rest of the line, if it |
| 1087 | were to be given as a command itself. This is intended for use by emacs. |
| 1088 | |
| 1089 | * Trailing space optional in prompt |
| 1090 | |
| 1091 | "set prompt" no longer adds a space for you after the prompt you set. This |
| 1092 | allows you to set a prompt which ends in a space or one that does not. |
| 1093 | |
| 1094 | * Breakpoint hit counts |
| 1095 | |
| 1096 | "info break" now displays a count of the number of times the breakpoint |
| 1097 | has been hit. This is especially useful in conjunction with "ignore"; you |
| 1098 | can ignore a large number of breakpoint hits, look at the breakpoint info |
| 1099 | to see how many times the breakpoint was hit, then run again, ignoring one |
| 1100 | less than that number, and this will get you quickly to the last hit of |
| 1101 | that breakpoint. |
| 1102 | |
| 1103 | * Ability to stop printing at NULL character |
| 1104 | |
| 1105 | "set print null-stop" will cause GDB to stop printing the characters of |
| 1106 | an array when the first NULL is encountered. This is useful when large |
| 1107 | arrays actually contain only short strings. |
| 1108 | |
| 1109 | * Shared library breakpoints |
| 1110 | |
| 1111 | In SunOS 4.x, SVR4, and Alpha OSF/1 configurations, you can now set |
| 1112 | breakpoints in shared libraries before the executable is run. |
| 1113 | |
| 1114 | * Hardware watchpoints |
| 1115 | |
| 1116 | There is a new hardware breakpoint for the watch command for sparclite |
| 1117 | targets. See gdb/sparclite/hw_breakpoint.note. |
| 1118 | |
| 1119 | Hardware watchpoints are also now supported under GNU/Linux. |
| 1120 | |
| 1121 | * Annotations |
| 1122 | |
| 1123 | Annotations have been added. These are for use with graphical interfaces, |
| 1124 | and are still experimental. Currently only gdba.el uses these. |
| 1125 | |
| 1126 | * Improved Irix 5 support |
| 1127 | |
| 1128 | GDB now works properly with Irix 5.2. |
| 1129 | |
| 1130 | * Improved HPPA support |
| 1131 | |
| 1132 | GDB now works properly with the latest GCC and GAS. |
| 1133 | |
| 1134 | * New native configurations |
| 1135 | |
| 1136 | Sequent PTX4 i[34]86-sequent-ptx4 |
| 1137 | HPPA running OSF/1 hppa*-*-osf* |
| 1138 | Atari TT running SVR4 m68*-*-sysv4* |
| 1139 | RS/6000 LynxOS rs6000-*-lynxos* |
| 1140 | |
| 1141 | * New targets |
| 1142 | |
| 1143 | OS/9000 i[34]86-*-os9k |
| 1144 | MIPS R4000 mips64*{,el}-*-{ecoff,elf} |
| 1145 | Sparc64 sparc64-*-* |
| 1146 | |
| 1147 | * Hitachi SH7000 and E7000-PC ICE support |
| 1148 | |
| 1149 | There is now support for communicating with the Hitachi E7000-PC ICE. |
| 1150 | This is available automatically when GDB is configured for the SH. |
| 1151 | |
| 1152 | * Fixes |
| 1153 | |
| 1154 | As usual, a variety of small fixes and improvements, both generic |
| 1155 | and configuration-specific. See the ChangeLog for more detail. |
| 1156 | |
| 1157 | *** Changes in GDB-4.12: |
| 1158 | |
| 1159 | * Irix 5 is now supported |
| 1160 | |
| 1161 | * HPPA support |
| 1162 | |
| 1163 | GDB-4.12 on the HPPA has a number of changes which make it unable |
| 1164 | to debug the output from the currently released versions of GCC and |
| 1165 | GAS (GCC 2.5.8 and GAS-2.2 or PAGAS-1.36). Until the next major release |
| 1166 | of GCC and GAS, versions of these tools designed to work with GDB-4.12 |
| 1167 | can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from jaguar.cs.utah.edu:/dist. |
| 1168 | |
| 1169 | |
| 1170 | *** Changes in GDB-4.11: |
| 1171 | |
| 1172 | * User visible changes: |
| 1173 | |
| 1174 | * Remote Debugging |
| 1175 | |
| 1176 | The "set remotedebug" option is now consistent between the mips remote |
| 1177 | target, remote targets using the gdb-specific protocol, UDI (AMD's |
| 1178 | debug protocol for the 29k) and the 88k bug monitor. It is now an |
| 1179 | integer specifying a debug level (normally 0 or 1, but 2 means more |
| 1180 | debugging info for the mips target). |
| 1181 | |
| 1182 | * DEC Alpha native support |
| 1183 | |
| 1184 | GDB now works on the DEC Alpha. GCC 2.4.5 does not produce usable |
| 1185 | debug info, but GDB works fairly well with the DEC compiler and should |
| 1186 | work with a future GCC release. See the README file for a few |
| 1187 | Alpha-specific notes. |
| 1188 | |
| 1189 | * Preliminary thread implementation |
| 1190 | |
| 1191 | GDB now has preliminary thread support for both SGI/Irix and LynxOS. |
| 1192 | |
| 1193 | * LynxOS native and target support for 386 |
| 1194 | |
| 1195 | This release has been hosted on LynxOS 2.2, and also can be configured |
| 1196 | to remotely debug programs running under LynxOS (see gdb/gdbserver/README |
| 1197 | for details). |
| 1198 | |
| 1199 | * Improvements in C++ mangling/demangling. |
| 1200 | |
| 1201 | This release has much better g++ debugging, specifically in name |
| 1202 | mangling/demangling, virtual function calls, print virtual table, |
| 1203 | call methods, ...etc. |
| 1204 | |
| 1205 | *** Changes in GDB-4.10: |
| 1206 | |
| 1207 | * User visible changes: |
| 1208 | |
| 1209 | Remote debugging using the GDB-specific (`target remote') protocol now |
| 1210 | supports the `load' command. This is only useful if you have some |
| 1211 | other way of getting the stub to the target system, and you can put it |
| 1212 | somewhere in memory where it won't get clobbered by the download. |
| 1213 | |
| 1214 | Filename completion now works. |
| 1215 | |
| 1216 | When run under emacs mode, the "info line" command now causes the |
| 1217 | arrow to point to the line specified. Also, "info line" prints |
| 1218 | addresses in symbolic form (as well as hex). |
| 1219 | |
| 1220 | All vxworks based targets now support a user settable option, called |
| 1221 | vxworks-timeout. This option represents the number of seconds gdb |
| 1222 | should wait for responses to rpc's. You might want to use this if |
| 1223 | your vxworks target is, perhaps, a slow software simulator or happens |
| 1224 | to be on the far side of a thin network line. |
| 1225 | |
| 1226 | * DEC alpha support |
| 1227 | |
| 1228 | This release contains support for using a DEC alpha as a GDB host for |
| 1229 | cross debugging. Native alpha debugging is not supported yet. |
| 1230 | |
| 1231 | |
| 1232 | *** Changes in GDB-4.9: |
| 1233 | |
| 1234 | * Testsuite |
| 1235 | |
| 1236 | This is the first GDB release which is accompanied by a matching testsuite. |
| 1237 | The testsuite requires installation of dejagnu, which should be available |
| 1238 | via ftp from most sites that carry GNU software. |
| 1239 | |
| 1240 | * C++ demangling |
| 1241 | |
| 1242 | 'Cfront' style demangling has had its name changed to 'ARM' style, to |
| 1243 | emphasize that it was written from the specifications in the C++ Annotated |
| 1244 | Reference Manual, not necessarily to be compatible with AT&T cfront. Despite |
| 1245 | disclaimers, it still generated too much confusion with users attempting to |
| 1246 | use gdb with AT&T cfront. |
| 1247 | |
| 1248 | * Simulators |
| 1249 | |
| 1250 | GDB now uses a standard remote interface to a simulator library. |
| 1251 | So far, the library contains simulators for the Zilog Z8001/2, the |
| 1252 | Hitachi H8/300, H8/500 and Super-H. |
| 1253 | |
| 1254 | * New targets supported |
| 1255 | |
| 1256 | H8/300 simulator h8300-hitachi-hms or h8300hms |
| 1257 | H8/500 simulator h8500-hitachi-hms or h8500hms |
| 1258 | SH simulator sh-hitachi-hms or sh |
| 1259 | Z8000 simulator z8k-zilog-none or z8ksim |
| 1260 | IDT MIPS board over serial line mips-idt-ecoff |
| 1261 | |
| 1262 | Cross-debugging to GO32 targets is supported. It requires a custom |
| 1263 | version of the i386-stub.c module which is integrated with the |
| 1264 | GO32 memory extender. |
| 1265 | |
| 1266 | * New remote protocols |
| 1267 | |
| 1268 | MIPS remote debugging protocol. |
| 1269 | |
| 1270 | * New source languages supported |
| 1271 | |
| 1272 | This version includes preliminary support for Chill, a Pascal like language |
| 1273 | used by telecommunications companies. Chill support is also being integrated |
| 1274 | into the GNU compiler, but we don't know when it will be publically available. |
| 1275 | |
| 1276 | |
| 1277 | *** Changes in GDB-4.8: |
| 1278 | |
| 1279 | * HP Precision Architecture supported |
| 1280 | |
| 1281 | GDB now supports HP PA-RISC machines running HPUX. A preliminary |
| 1282 | version of this support was available as a set of patches from the |
| 1283 | University of Utah. GDB does not support debugging of programs |
| 1284 | compiled with the HP compiler, because HP will not document their file |
| 1285 | format. Instead, you must use GCC (version 2.3.2 or later) and PA-GAS |
| 1286 | (as available from jaguar.cs.utah.edu:/dist/pa-gas.u4.tar.Z). |
| 1287 | |
| 1288 | Many problems in the preliminary version have been fixed. |
| 1289 | |
| 1290 | * Faster and better demangling |
| 1291 | |
| 1292 | We have improved template demangling and fixed numerous bugs in the GNU style |
| 1293 | demangler. It can now handle type modifiers such as `static' or `const'. Wide |
| 1294 | character types (wchar_t) are now supported. Demangling of each symbol is now |
| 1295 | only done once, and is cached when the symbol table for a file is read in. |
| 1296 | This results in a small increase in memory usage for C programs, a moderate |
| 1297 | increase in memory usage for C++ programs, and a fantastic speedup in |
| 1298 | symbol lookups. |
| 1299 | |
| 1300 | `Cfront' style demangling still doesn't work with AT&T cfront. It was written |
| 1301 | from the specifications in the Annotated Reference Manual, which AT&T's |
| 1302 | compiler does not actually implement. |
| 1303 | |
| 1304 | * G++ multiple inheritance compiler problem |
| 1305 | |
| 1306 | In the 2.3.2 release of gcc/g++, how the compiler resolves multiple |
| 1307 | inheritance lattices was reworked to properly discover ambiguities. We |
| 1308 | recently found an example which causes this new algorithm to fail in a |
| 1309 | very subtle way, producing bad debug information for those classes. |
| 1310 | The file 'gcc.patch' (in this directory) can be applied to gcc to |
| 1311 | circumvent the problem. A future GCC release will contain a complete |
| 1312 | fix. |
| 1313 | |
| 1314 | The previous G++ debug info problem (mentioned below for the gdb-4.7 |
| 1315 | release) is fixed in gcc version 2.3.2. |
| 1316 | |
| 1317 | * Improved configure script |
| 1318 | |
| 1319 | The `configure' script will now attempt to guess your system type if |
| 1320 | you don't supply a host system type. The old scheme of supplying a |
| 1321 | host system triplet is preferable over using this. All the magic is |
| 1322 | done in the new `config.guess' script. Examine it for details. |
| 1323 | |
| 1324 | We have also brought our configure script much more in line with the FSF's |
| 1325 | version. It now supports the --with-xxx options. In particular, |
| 1326 | `--with-minimal-bfd' can be used to make the GDB binary image smaller. |
| 1327 | The resulting GDB will not be able to read arbitrary object file formats -- |
| 1328 | only the format ``expected'' to be used on the configured target system. |
| 1329 | We hope to make this the default in a future release. |
| 1330 | |
| 1331 | * Documentation improvements |
| 1332 | |
| 1333 | There's new internal documentation on how to modify GDB, and how to |
| 1334 | produce clean changes to the code. We implore people to read it |
| 1335 | before submitting changes. |
| 1336 | |
| 1337 | The GDB manual uses new, sexy Texinfo conditionals, rather than arcane |
| 1338 | M4 macros. The new texinfo.tex is provided in this release. Pre-built |
| 1339 | `info' files are also provided. To build `info' files from scratch, |
| 1340 | you will need the latest `makeinfo' release, which will be available in |
| 1341 | a future texinfo-X.Y release. |
| 1342 | |
| 1343 | *NOTE* The new texinfo.tex can cause old versions of TeX to hang. |
| 1344 | We're not sure exactly which versions have this problem, but it has |
| 1345 | been seen in 3.0. We highly recommend upgrading to TeX version 3.141 |
| 1346 | or better. If that isn't possible, there is a patch in |
| 1347 | `texinfo/tex3patch' that will modify `texinfo/texinfo.tex' to work |
| 1348 | around this problem. |
| 1349 | |
| 1350 | * New features |
| 1351 | |
| 1352 | GDB now supports array constants that can be used in expressions typed in by |
| 1353 | the user. The syntax is `{element, element, ...}'. Ie: you can now type |
| 1354 | `print {1, 2, 3}', and it will build up an array in memory malloc'd in |
| 1355 | the target program. |
| 1356 | |
| 1357 | The new directory `gdb/sparclite' contains a program that demonstrates |
| 1358 | how the sparc-stub.c remote stub runs on a Fujitsu SPARClite processor. |
| 1359 | |
| 1360 | * New native hosts supported |
| 1361 | |
| 1362 | HP/PA-RISC under HPUX using GNU tools hppa1.1-hp-hpux |
| 1363 | 386 CPUs running SCO Unix 3.2v4 i386-unknown-sco3.2v4 |
| 1364 | |
| 1365 | * New targets supported |
| 1366 | |
| 1367 | AMD 29k family via UDI a29k-amd-udi or udi29k |
| 1368 | |
| 1369 | * New file formats supported |
| 1370 | |
| 1371 | BFD now supports reading HP/PA-RISC executables (SOM file format?), |
| 1372 | HPUX core files, and SCO 3.2v2 core files. |
| 1373 | |
| 1374 | * Major bug fixes |
| 1375 | |
| 1376 | Attaching to processes now works again; thanks for the many bug reports. |
| 1377 | |
| 1378 | We have also stomped on a bunch of core dumps caused by |
| 1379 | printf_filtered("%s") problems. |
| 1380 | |
| 1381 | We eliminated a copyright problem on the rpc and ptrace header files |
| 1382 | for VxWorks, which was discovered at the last minute during the 4.7 |
| 1383 | release. You should now be able to build a VxWorks GDB. |
| 1384 | |
| 1385 | You can now interrupt gdb while an attached process is running. This |
| 1386 | will cause the attached process to stop, and give control back to GDB. |
| 1387 | |
| 1388 | We fixed problems caused by using too many file descriptors |
| 1389 | for reading symbols from object files and libraries. This was |
| 1390 | especially a problem for programs that used many (~100) shared |
| 1391 | libraries. |
| 1392 | |
| 1393 | The `step' command now only enters a subroutine if there is line number |
| 1394 | information for the subroutine. Otherwise it acts like the `next' |
| 1395 | command. Previously, `step' would enter subroutines if there was |
| 1396 | any debugging information about the routine. This avoids problems |
| 1397 | when using `cc -g1' on MIPS machines. |
| 1398 | |
| 1399 | * Internal improvements |
| 1400 | |
| 1401 | GDB's internal interfaces have been improved to make it easier to support |
| 1402 | debugging of multiple languages in the future. |
| 1403 | |
| 1404 | GDB now uses a common structure for symbol information internally. |
| 1405 | Minimal symbols (derived from linkage symbols in object files), partial |
| 1406 | symbols (from a quick scan of debug information), and full symbols |
| 1407 | contain a common subset of information, making it easier to write |
| 1408 | shared code that handles any of them. |
| 1409 | |
| 1410 | * New command line options |
| 1411 | |
| 1412 | We now accept --silent as an alias for --quiet. |
| 1413 | |
| 1414 | * Mmalloc licensing |
| 1415 | |
| 1416 | The memory-mapped-malloc library is now licensed under the GNU Library |
| 1417 | General Public License. |
| 1418 | |
| 1419 | *** Changes in GDB-4.7: |
| 1420 | |
| 1421 | * Host/native/target split |
| 1422 | |
| 1423 | GDB has had some major internal surgery to untangle the support for |
| 1424 | hosts and remote targets. Now, when you configure GDB for a remote |
| 1425 | target, it will no longer load in all of the support for debugging |
| 1426 | local programs on the host. When fully completed and tested, this will |
| 1427 | ensure that arbitrary host/target combinations are possible. |
| 1428 | |
| 1429 | The primary conceptual shift is to separate the non-portable code in |
| 1430 | GDB into three categories. Host specific code is required any time GDB |
| 1431 | is compiled on that host, regardless of the target. Target specific |
| 1432 | code relates to the peculiarities of the target, but can be compiled on |
| 1433 | any host. Native specific code is everything else: it can only be |
| 1434 | built when the host and target are the same system. Child process |
| 1435 | handling and core file support are two common `native' examples. |
| 1436 | |
| 1437 | GDB's use of /proc for controlling Unix child processes is now cleaner. |
| 1438 | It has been split out into a single module under the `target_ops' vector, |
| 1439 | plus two native-dependent functions for each system that uses /proc. |
| 1440 | |
| 1441 | * New hosts supported |
| 1442 | |
| 1443 | HP/Apollo 68k (under the BSD domain) m68k-apollo-bsd or apollo68bsd |
| 1444 | 386 CPUs running various BSD ports i386-unknown-bsd or 386bsd |
| 1445 | 386 CPUs running SCO Unix i386-unknown-scosysv322 or i386sco |
| 1446 | |
| 1447 | * New targets supported |
| 1448 | |
| 1449 | Fujitsu SPARClite sparclite-fujitsu-none or sparclite |
| 1450 | 68030 and CPU32 m68030-*-*, m68332-*-* |
| 1451 | |
| 1452 | * New native hosts supported |
| 1453 | |
| 1454 | 386 CPUs running various BSD ports i386-unknown-bsd or 386bsd |
| 1455 | (386bsd is not well tested yet) |
| 1456 | 386 CPUs running SCO Unix i386-unknown-scosysv322 or sco |
| 1457 | |
| 1458 | * New file formats supported |
| 1459 | |
| 1460 | BFD now supports COFF files for the Zilog Z8000 microprocessor. It |
| 1461 | supports reading of `a.out.adobe' object files, which are an a.out |
| 1462 | format extended with minimal information about multiple sections. |
| 1463 | |
| 1464 | * New commands |
| 1465 | |
| 1466 | `show copying' is the same as the old `info copying'. |
| 1467 | `show warranty' is the same as `info warrantee'. |
| 1468 | These were renamed for consistency. The old commands continue to work. |
| 1469 | |
| 1470 | `info handle' is a new alias for `info signals'. |
| 1471 | |
| 1472 | You can now define pre-command hooks, which attach arbitrary command |
| 1473 | scripts to any command. The commands in the hook will be executed |
| 1474 | prior to the user's command. You can also create a hook which will be |
| 1475 | executed whenever the program stops. See gdb.texinfo. |
| 1476 | |
| 1477 | * C++ improvements |
| 1478 | |
| 1479 | We now deal with Cfront style name mangling, and can even extract type |
| 1480 | info from mangled symbols. GDB can automatically figure out which |
| 1481 | symbol mangling style your C++ compiler uses. |
| 1482 | |
| 1483 | Calling of methods and virtual functions has been improved as well. |
| 1484 | |
| 1485 | * Major bug fixes |
| 1486 | |
| 1487 | The crash that occured when debugging Sun Ansi-C compiled binaries is |
| 1488 | fixed. This was due to mishandling of the extra N_SO stabs output |
| 1489 | by the compiler. |
| 1490 | |
| 1491 | We also finally got Ultrix 4.2 running in house, and fixed core file |
| 1492 | support, with help from a dozen people on the net. |
| 1493 | |
| 1494 | John M. Farrell discovered that the reason that single-stepping was so |
| 1495 | slow on all of the Mips based platforms (primarily SGI and DEC) was |
| 1496 | that we were trying to demangle and lookup a symbol used for internal |
| 1497 | purposes on every instruction that was being stepped through. Changing |
| 1498 | the name of that symbol so that it couldn't be mistaken for a C++ |
| 1499 | mangled symbol sped things up a great deal. |
| 1500 | |
| 1501 | Rich Pixley sped up symbol lookups in general by getting much smarter |
| 1502 | about when C++ symbol mangling is necessary. This should make symbol |
| 1503 | completion (TAB on the command line) much faster. It's not as fast as |
| 1504 | we'd like, but it's significantly faster than gdb-4.6. |
| 1505 | |
| 1506 | * AMD 29k support |
| 1507 | |
| 1508 | A new user controllable variable 'call_scratch_address' can |
| 1509 | specify the location of a scratch area to be used when GDB |
| 1510 | calls a function in the target. This is necessary because the |
| 1511 | usual method of putting the scratch area on the stack does not work |
| 1512 | in systems that have separate instruction and data spaces. |
| 1513 | |
| 1514 | We integrated changes to support the 29k UDI (Universal Debugger |
| 1515 | Interface), but discovered at the last minute that we didn't have all |
| 1516 | of the appropriate copyright paperwork. We are working with AMD to |
| 1517 | resolve this, and hope to have it available soon. |
| 1518 | |
| 1519 | * Remote interfaces |
| 1520 | |
| 1521 | We have sped up the remote serial line protocol, especially for targets |
| 1522 | with lots of registers. It now supports a new `expedited status' ('T') |
| 1523 | message which can be used in place of the existing 'S' status message. |
| 1524 | This allows the remote stub to send only the registers that GDB |
| 1525 | needs to make a quick decision about single-stepping or conditional |
| 1526 | breakpoints, eliminating the need to fetch the entire register set for |
| 1527 | each instruction being stepped through. |
| 1528 | |
| 1529 | The GDB remote serial protocol now implements a write-through cache for |
| 1530 | registers, only re-reading the registers if the target has run. |
| 1531 | |
| 1532 | There is also a new remote serial stub for SPARC processors. You can |
| 1533 | find it in gdb-4.7/gdb/sparc-stub.c. This was written to support the |
| 1534 | Fujitsu SPARClite processor, but will run on any stand-alone SPARC |
| 1535 | processor with a serial port. |
| 1536 | |
| 1537 | * Configuration |
| 1538 | |
| 1539 | Configure.in files have become much easier to read and modify. A new |
| 1540 | `table driven' format makes it more obvious what configurations are |
| 1541 | supported, and what files each one uses. |
| 1542 | |
| 1543 | * Library changes |
| 1544 | |
| 1545 | There is a new opcodes library which will eventually contain all of the |
| 1546 | disassembly routines and opcode tables. At present, it only contains |
| 1547 | Sparc and Z8000 routines. This will allow the assembler, debugger, and |
| 1548 | disassembler (binutils/objdump) to share these routines. |
| 1549 | |
| 1550 | The libiberty library is now copylefted under the GNU Library General |
| 1551 | Public License. This allows more liberal use, and was done so libg++ |
| 1552 | can use it. This makes no difference to GDB, since the Library License |
| 1553 | grants all the rights from the General Public License. |
| 1554 | |
| 1555 | * Documentation |
| 1556 | |
| 1557 | The file gdb-4.7/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo is a (relatively) complete |
| 1558 | reference to the stabs symbol info used by the debugger. It is (as far |
| 1559 | as we know) the only published document on this fascinating topic. We |
| 1560 | encourage you to read it, compare it to the stabs information on your |
| 1561 | system, and send improvements on the document in general (to |
| 1562 | bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu). |
| 1563 | |
| 1564 | And, of course, many bugs have been fixed. |
| 1565 | |
| 1566 | |
| 1567 | *** Changes in GDB-4.6: |
| 1568 | |
| 1569 | * Better support for C++ function names |
| 1570 | |
| 1571 | GDB now accepts as input the "demangled form" of C++ overloaded function |
| 1572 | names and member function names, and can do command completion on such names |
| 1573 | (using TAB, TAB-TAB, and ESC-?). The names have to be quoted with a pair of |
| 1574 | single quotes. Examples are 'func (int, long)' and 'obj::operator==(obj&)'. |
| 1575 | Make use of command completion, it is your friend. |
| 1576 | |
| 1577 | GDB also now accepts a variety of C++ mangled symbol formats. They are |
| 1578 | the GNU g++ style, the Cfront (ARM) style, and the Lucid (lcc) style. |
| 1579 | You can tell GDB which format to use by doing a 'set demangle-style {gnu, |
| 1580 | lucid, cfront, auto}'. 'gnu' is the default. Do a 'set demangle-style foo' |
| 1581 | for the list of formats. |
| 1582 | |
| 1583 | * G++ symbol mangling problem |
| 1584 | |
| 1585 | Recent versions of gcc have a bug in how they emit debugging information for |
| 1586 | C++ methods (when using dbx-style stabs). The file 'gcc.patch' (in this |
| 1587 | directory) can be applied to gcc to fix the problem. Alternatively, if you |
| 1588 | can't fix gcc, you can #define GCC_MANGLE_BUG when compling gdb/symtab.c. The |
| 1589 | usual symptom is difficulty with setting breakpoints on methods. GDB complains |
| 1590 | about the method being non-existent. (We believe that version 2.2.2 of GCC has |
| 1591 | this problem.) |
| 1592 | |
| 1593 | * New 'maintenance' command |
| 1594 | |
| 1595 | All of the commands related to hacking GDB internals have been moved out of |
| 1596 | the main command set, and now live behind the 'maintenance' command. This |
| 1597 | can also be abbreviated as 'mt'. The following changes were made: |
| 1598 | |
| 1599 | dump-me -> maintenance dump-me |
| 1600 | info all-breakpoints -> maintenance info breakpoints |
| 1601 | printmsyms -> maintenance print msyms |
| 1602 | printobjfiles -> maintenance print objfiles |
| 1603 | printpsyms -> maintenance print psymbols |
| 1604 | printsyms -> maintenance print symbols |
| 1605 | |
| 1606 | The following commands are new: |
| 1607 | |
| 1608 | maintenance demangle Call internal GDB demangler routine to |
| 1609 | demangle a C++ link name and prints the result. |
| 1610 | maintenance print type Print a type chain for a given symbol |
| 1611 | |
| 1612 | * Change to .gdbinit file processing |
| 1613 | |
| 1614 | We now read the $HOME/.gdbinit file before processing the argv arguments |
| 1615 | (e.g. reading symbol files or core files). This allows global parameters to |
| 1616 | be set, which will apply during the symbol reading. The ./.gdbinit is still |
| 1617 | read after argv processing. |
| 1618 | |
| 1619 | * New hosts supported |
| 1620 | |
| 1621 | Solaris-2.0 !!! sparc-sun-solaris2 or sun4sol2 |
| 1622 | |
| 1623 | GNU/Linux support i386-unknown-linux or linux |
| 1624 | |
| 1625 | We are also including code to support the HP/PA running BSD and HPUX. This |
| 1626 | is almost guaranteed not to work, as we didn't have time to test or build it |
| 1627 | for this release. We are including it so that the more adventurous (or |
| 1628 | masochistic) of you can play with it. We also had major problems with the |
| 1629 | fact that the compiler that we got from HP doesn't support the -g option. |
| 1630 | It costs extra. |
| 1631 | |
| 1632 | * New targets supported |
| 1633 | |
| 1634 | Hitachi H8/300 h8300-hitachi-hms or h8300hms |
| 1635 | |
| 1636 | * More smarts about finding #include files |
| 1637 | |
| 1638 | GDB now remembers the compilation directory for all include files, and for |
| 1639 | all files from which C is generated (like yacc and lex sources). This |
| 1640 | greatly improves GDB's ability to find yacc/lex sources, and include files, |
| 1641 | especially if you are debugging your program from a directory different from |
| 1642 | the one that contains your sources. |
| 1643 | |
| 1644 | We also fixed a bug which caused difficulty with listing and setting |
| 1645 | breakpoints in include files which contain C code. (In the past, you had to |
| 1646 | try twice in order to list an include file that you hadn't looked at before.) |
| 1647 | |
| 1648 | * Interesting infernals change |
| 1649 | |
| 1650 | GDB now deals with arbitrary numbers of sections, where the symbols for each |
| 1651 | section must be relocated relative to that section's landing place in the |
| 1652 | target's address space. This work was needed to support ELF with embedded |
| 1653 | stabs used by Solaris-2.0. |
| 1654 | |
| 1655 | * Bug fixes (of course!) |
| 1656 | |
| 1657 | There have been loads of fixes for the following things: |
| 1658 | mips, rs6000, 29k/udi, m68k, g++, type handling, elf/dwarf, m88k, |
| 1659 | i960, stabs, DOS(GO32), procfs, etc... |
| 1660 | |
| 1661 | See the ChangeLog for details. |
| 1662 | |
| 1663 | *** Changes in GDB-4.5: |
| 1664 | |
| 1665 | * New machines supported (host and target) |
| 1666 | |
| 1667 | IBM RS6000 running AIX rs6000-ibm-aix or rs6000 |
| 1668 | |
| 1669 | SGI Irix-4.x mips-sgi-irix4 or iris4 |
| 1670 | |
| 1671 | * New malloc package |
| 1672 | |
| 1673 | GDB now uses a new memory manager called mmalloc, based on gmalloc. |
| 1674 | Mmalloc is capable of handling mutiple heaps of memory. It is also |
| 1675 | capable of saving a heap to a file, and then mapping it back in later. |
| 1676 | This can be used to greatly speedup the startup of GDB by using a |
| 1677 | pre-parsed symbol table which lives in a mmalloc managed heap. For |
| 1678 | more details, please read mmalloc/mmalloc.texi. |
| 1679 | |
| 1680 | * info proc |
| 1681 | |
| 1682 | The 'info proc' command (SVR4 only) has been enhanced quite a bit. See |
| 1683 | 'help info proc' for details. |
| 1684 | |
| 1685 | * MIPS ecoff symbol table format |
| 1686 | |
| 1687 | The code that reads MIPS symbol table format is now supported on all hosts. |
| 1688 | Thanks to MIPS for releasing the sym.h and symconst.h files to make this |
| 1689 | possible. |
| 1690 | |
| 1691 | * File name changes for MS-DOS |
| 1692 | |
| 1693 | Many files in the config directories have been renamed to make it easier to |
| 1694 | support GDB on MS-DOSe systems (which have very restrictive file name |
| 1695 | conventions :-( ). MS-DOSe host support (under DJ Delorie's GO32 |
| 1696 | environment) is close to working but has some remaining problems. Note |
| 1697 | that debugging of DOS programs is not supported, due to limitations |
| 1698 | in the ``operating system'', but it can be used to host cross-debugging. |
| 1699 | |
| 1700 | * Cross byte order fixes |
| 1701 | |
| 1702 | Many fixes have been made to support cross debugging of Sparc and MIPS |
| 1703 | targets from hosts whose byte order differs. |
| 1704 | |
| 1705 | * New -mapped and -readnow options |
| 1706 | |
| 1707 | If memory-mapped files are available on your system through the 'mmap' |
| 1708 | system call, you can use the -mapped option on the `file' or |
| 1709 | `symbol-file' commands to cause GDB to write the symbols from your |
| 1710 | program into a reusable file. If the program you are debugging is |
| 1711 | called `/path/fred', the mapped symbol file will be `./fred.syms'. |
| 1712 | Future GDB debugging sessions will notice the presence of this file, |
| 1713 | and will quickly map in symbol information from it, rather than reading |
| 1714 | the symbol table from the executable program. Using the '-mapped' |
| 1715 | option in a GDB `file' or `symbol-file' command has the same effect as |
| 1716 | starting GDB with the '-mapped' command-line option. |
| 1717 | |
| 1718 | You can cause GDB to read the entire symbol table immediately by using |
| 1719 | the '-readnow' option with any of the commands that load symbol table |
| 1720 | information (or on the GDB command line). This makes the command |
| 1721 | slower, but makes future operations faster. |
| 1722 | |
| 1723 | The -mapped and -readnow options are typically combined in order to |
| 1724 | build a `fred.syms' file that contains complete symbol information. |
| 1725 | A simple GDB invocation to do nothing but build a `.syms' file for future |
| 1726 | use is: |
| 1727 | |
| 1728 | gdb -batch -nx -mapped -readnow programname |
| 1729 | |
| 1730 | The `.syms' file is specific to the host machine on which GDB is run. |
| 1731 | It holds an exact image of GDB's internal symbol table. It cannot be |
| 1732 | shared across multiple host platforms. |
| 1733 | |
| 1734 | * longjmp() handling |
| 1735 | |
| 1736 | GDB is now capable of stepping and nexting over longjmp(), _longjmp(), and |
| 1737 | siglongjmp() without losing control. This feature has not yet been ported to |
| 1738 | all systems. It currently works on many 386 platforms, all MIPS-based |
| 1739 | platforms (SGI, DECstation, etc), and Sun3/4. |
| 1740 | |
| 1741 | * Solaris 2.0 |
| 1742 | |
| 1743 | Preliminary work has been put in to support the new Solaris OS from Sun. At |
| 1744 | this time, it can control and debug processes, but it is not capable of |
| 1745 | reading symbols. |
| 1746 | |
| 1747 | * Bug fixes |
| 1748 | |
| 1749 | As always, many many bug fixes. The major areas were with g++, and mipsread. |
| 1750 | People using the MIPS-based platforms should experience fewer mysterious |
| 1751 | crashes and trashed symbol tables. |
| 1752 | |
| 1753 | *** Changes in GDB-4.4: |
| 1754 | |
| 1755 | * New machines supported (host and target) |
| 1756 | |
| 1757 | SCO Unix on i386 IBM PC clones i386-sco-sysv or i386sco |
| 1758 | (except core files) |
| 1759 | BSD Reno on Vax vax-dec-bsd |
| 1760 | Ultrix on Vax vax-dec-ultrix |
| 1761 | |
| 1762 | * New machines supported (target) |
| 1763 | |
| 1764 | AMD 29000 embedded, using EBMON a29k-none-none |
| 1765 | |
| 1766 | * C++ support |
| 1767 | |
| 1768 | GDB continues to improve its handling of C++. `References' work better. |
| 1769 | The demangler has also been improved, and now deals with symbols mangled as |
| 1770 | per the Annotated C++ Reference Guide. |
| 1771 | |
| 1772 | GDB also now handles `stabs' symbol information embedded in MIPS |
| 1773 | `ecoff' symbol tables. Since the ecoff format was not easily |
| 1774 | extensible to handle new languages such as C++, this appeared to be a |
| 1775 | good way to put C++ debugging info into MIPS binaries. This option |
| 1776 | will be supported in the GNU C compiler, version 2, when it is |
| 1777 | released. |
| 1778 | |
| 1779 | * New features for SVR4 |
| 1780 | |
| 1781 | GDB now handles SVR4 shared libraries, in the same fashion as SunOS |
| 1782 | shared libraries. Debugging dynamically linked programs should present |
| 1783 | only minor differences from debugging statically linked programs. |
| 1784 | |
| 1785 | The `info proc' command will print out information about any process |
| 1786 | on an SVR4 system (including the one you are debugging). At the moment, |
| 1787 | it prints the address mappings of the process. |
| 1788 | |
| 1789 | If you bring up GDB on another SVR4 system, please send mail to |
| 1790 | bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu to let us know what changes were reqired (if any). |
| 1791 | |
| 1792 | * Better dynamic linking support in SunOS |
| 1793 | |
| 1794 | Reading symbols from shared libraries which contain debugging symbols |
| 1795 | now works properly. However, there remain issues such as automatic |
| 1796 | skipping of `transfer vector' code during function calls, which |
| 1797 | make it harder to debug code in a shared library, than to debug the |
| 1798 | same code linked statically. |
| 1799 | |
| 1800 | * New Getopt |
| 1801 | |
| 1802 | GDB is now using the latest `getopt' routines from the FSF. This |
| 1803 | version accepts the -- prefix for options with long names. GDB will |
| 1804 | continue to accept the old forms (-option and +option) as well. |
| 1805 | Various single letter abbreviations for options have been explicity |
| 1806 | added to the option table so that they won't get overshadowed in the |
| 1807 | future by other options that begin with the same letter. |
| 1808 | |
| 1809 | * Bugs fixed |
| 1810 | |
| 1811 | The `cleanup_undefined_types' bug that many of you noticed has been squashed. |
| 1812 | Many assorted bugs have been handled. Many more remain to be handled. |
| 1813 | See the various ChangeLog files (primarily in gdb and bfd) for details. |
| 1814 | |
| 1815 | |
| 1816 | *** Changes in GDB-4.3: |
| 1817 | |
| 1818 | * New machines supported (host and target) |
| 1819 | |
| 1820 | Amiga 3000 running Amix m68k-cbm-svr4 or amix |
| 1821 | NCR 3000 386 running SVR4 i386-ncr-svr4 or ncr3000 |
| 1822 | Motorola Delta 88000 running Sys V m88k-motorola-sysv or delta88 |
| 1823 | |
| 1824 | * Almost SCO Unix support |
| 1825 | |
| 1826 | We had hoped to support: |
| 1827 | SCO Unix on i386 IBM PC clones i386-sco-sysv or i386sco |
| 1828 | (except for core file support), but we discovered very late in the release |
| 1829 | that it has problems with process groups that render gdb unusable. Sorry |
| 1830 | about that. I encourage people to fix it and post the fixes. |
| 1831 | |
| 1832 | * Preliminary ELF and DWARF support |
| 1833 | |
| 1834 | GDB can read ELF object files on System V Release 4, and can handle |
| 1835 | debugging records for C, in DWARF format, in ELF files. This support |
| 1836 | is preliminary. If you bring up GDB on another SVR4 system, please |
| 1837 | send mail to bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu to let us know what changes were |
| 1838 | reqired (if any). |
| 1839 | |
| 1840 | * New Readline |
| 1841 | |
| 1842 | GDB now uses the latest `readline' library. One user-visible change |
| 1843 | is that two tabs will list possible command completions, which previously |
| 1844 | required typing M-? (meta-question mark, or ESC ?). |
| 1845 | |
| 1846 | * Bugs fixed |
| 1847 | |
| 1848 | The `stepi' bug that many of you noticed has been squashed. |
| 1849 | Many bugs in C++ have been handled. Many more remain to be handled. |
| 1850 | See the various ChangeLog files (primarily in gdb and bfd) for details. |
| 1851 | |
| 1852 | * State of the MIPS world (in case you wondered): |
| 1853 | |
| 1854 | GDB can understand the symbol tables emitted by the compilers |
| 1855 | supplied by most vendors of MIPS-based machines, including DEC. These |
| 1856 | symbol tables are in a format that essentially nobody else uses. |
| 1857 | |
| 1858 | Some versions of gcc come with an assembler post-processor called |
| 1859 | mips-tfile. This program is required if you want to do source-level |
| 1860 | debugging of gcc-compiled programs. I believe FSF does not ship |
| 1861 | mips-tfile with gcc version 1, but it will eventually come with gcc |
| 1862 | version 2. |
| 1863 | |
| 1864 | Debugging of g++ output remains a problem. g++ version 1.xx does not |
| 1865 | really support it at all. (If you're lucky, you should be able to get |
| 1866 | line numbers and stack traces to work, but no parameters or local |
| 1867 | variables.) With some work it should be possible to improve the |
| 1868 | situation somewhat. |
| 1869 | |
| 1870 | When gcc version 2 is released, you will have somewhat better luck. |
| 1871 | However, even then you will get confusing results for inheritance and |
| 1872 | methods. |
| 1873 | |
| 1874 | We will eventually provide full debugging of g++ output on |
| 1875 | DECstations. This will probably involve some kind of stabs-in-ecoff |
| 1876 | encapulation, but the details have not been worked out yet. |
| 1877 | |
| 1878 | |
| 1879 | *** Changes in GDB-4.2: |
| 1880 | |
| 1881 | * Improved configuration |
| 1882 | |
| 1883 | Only one copy of `configure' exists now, and it is not self-modifying. |
| 1884 | Porting BFD is simpler. |
| 1885 | |
| 1886 | * Stepping improved |
| 1887 | |
| 1888 | The `step' and `next' commands now only stop at the first instruction |
| 1889 | of a source line. This prevents the multiple stops that used to occur |
| 1890 | in switch statements, for-loops, etc. `Step' continues to stop if a |
| 1891 | function that has debugging information is called within the line. |
| 1892 | |
| 1893 | * Bug fixing |
| 1894 | |
| 1895 | Lots of small bugs fixed. More remain. |
| 1896 | |
| 1897 | * New host supported (not target) |
| 1898 | |
| 1899 | Intel 386 PC clone running Mach i386-none-mach |
| 1900 | |
| 1901 | |
| 1902 | *** Changes in GDB-4.1: |
| 1903 | |
| 1904 | * Multiple source language support |
| 1905 | |
| 1906 | GDB now has internal scaffolding to handle several source languages. |
| 1907 | It determines the type of each source file from its filename extension, |
| 1908 | and will switch expression parsing and number formatting to match the |
| 1909 | language of the function in the currently selected stack frame. |
| 1910 | You can also specifically set the language to be used, with |
| 1911 | `set language c' or `set language modula-2'. |
| 1912 | |
| 1913 | * GDB and Modula-2 |
| 1914 | |
| 1915 | GDB now has preliminary support for the GNU Modula-2 compiler, |
| 1916 | currently under development at the State University of New York at |
| 1917 | Buffalo. Development of both GDB and the GNU Modula-2 compiler will |
| 1918 | continue through the fall of 1991 and into 1992. |
| 1919 | |
| 1920 | Other Modula-2 compilers are currently not supported, and attempting to |
| 1921 | debug programs compiled with them will likely result in an error as the |
| 1922 | symbol table is read. Feel free to work on it, though! |
| 1923 | |
| 1924 | There are hooks in GDB for strict type checking and range checking, |
| 1925 | in the `Modula-2 philosophy', but they do not currently work. |
| 1926 | |
| 1927 | * set write on/off |
| 1928 | |
| 1929 | GDB can now write to executable and core files (e.g. patch |
| 1930 | a variable's value). You must turn this switch on, specify |
| 1931 | the file ("exec foo" or "core foo"), *then* modify it, e.g. |
| 1932 | by assigning a new value to a variable. Modifications take |
| 1933 | effect immediately. |
| 1934 | |
| 1935 | * Automatic SunOS shared library reading |
| 1936 | |
| 1937 | When you run your program, GDB automatically determines where its |
| 1938 | shared libraries (if any) have been loaded, and reads their symbols. |
| 1939 | The `share' command is no longer needed. This also works when |
| 1940 | examining core files. |
| 1941 | |
| 1942 | * set listsize |
| 1943 | |
| 1944 | You can specify the number of lines that the `list' command shows. |
| 1945 | The default is 10. |
| 1946 | |
| 1947 | * New machines supported (host and target) |
| 1948 | |
| 1949 | SGI Iris (MIPS) running Irix V3: mips-sgi-irix or iris |
| 1950 | Sony NEWS (68K) running NEWSOS 3.x: m68k-sony-sysv or news |
| 1951 | Ultracomputer (29K) running Sym1: a29k-nyu-sym1 or ultra3 |
| 1952 | |
| 1953 | * New hosts supported (not targets) |
| 1954 | |
| 1955 | IBM RT/PC: romp-ibm-aix or rtpc |
| 1956 | |
| 1957 | * New targets supported (not hosts) |
| 1958 | |
| 1959 | AMD 29000 embedded with COFF a29k-none-coff |
| 1960 | AMD 29000 embedded with a.out a29k-none-aout |
| 1961 | Ultracomputer remote kernel debug a29k-nyu-kern |
| 1962 | |
| 1963 | * New remote interfaces |
| 1964 | |
| 1965 | AMD 29000 Adapt |
| 1966 | AMD 29000 Minimon |
| 1967 | |
| 1968 | |
| 1969 | *** Changes in GDB-4.0: |
| 1970 | |
| 1971 | * New Facilities |
| 1972 | |
| 1973 | Wide output is wrapped at good places to make the output more readable. |
| 1974 | |
| 1975 | Gdb now supports cross-debugging from a host machine of one type to a |
| 1976 | target machine of another type. Communication with the target system |
| 1977 | is over serial lines. The ``target'' command handles connecting to the |
| 1978 | remote system; the ``load'' command will download a program into the |
| 1979 | remote system. Serial stubs for the m68k and i386 are provided. Gdb |
| 1980 | also supports debugging of realtime processes running under VxWorks, |
| 1981 | using SunRPC Remote Procedure Calls over TCP/IP to talk to a debugger |
| 1982 | stub on the target system. |
| 1983 | |
| 1984 | New CPUs supported include the AMD 29000 and Intel 960. |
| 1985 | |
| 1986 | GDB now reads object files and symbol tables via a ``binary file'' |
| 1987 | library, which allows a single copy of GDB to debug programs of multiple |
| 1988 | object file types such as a.out and coff. |
| 1989 | |
| 1990 | There is now a GDB reference card in "doc/refcard.tex". (Make targets |
| 1991 | refcard.dvi and refcard.ps are available to format it). |
| 1992 | |
| 1993 | |
| 1994 | * Control-Variable user interface simplified |
| 1995 | |
| 1996 | All variables that control the operation of the debugger can be set |
| 1997 | by the ``set'' command, and displayed by the ``show'' command. |
| 1998 | |
| 1999 | For example, ``set prompt new-gdb=>'' will change your prompt to new-gdb=>. |
| 2000 | ``Show prompt'' produces the response: |
| 2001 | Gdb's prompt is new-gdb=>. |
| 2002 | |
| 2003 | What follows are the NEW set commands. The command ``help set'' will |
| 2004 | print a complete list of old and new set commands. ``help set FOO'' |
| 2005 | will give a longer description of the variable FOO. ``show'' will show |
| 2006 | all of the variable descriptions and their current settings. |
| 2007 | |
| 2008 | confirm on/off: Enables warning questions for operations that are |
| 2009 | hard to recover from, e.g. rerunning the program while |
| 2010 | it is already running. Default is ON. |
| 2011 | |
| 2012 | editing on/off: Enables EMACS style command line editing |
| 2013 | of input. Previous lines can be recalled with |
| 2014 | control-P, the current line can be edited with control-B, |
| 2015 | you can search for commands with control-R, etc. |
| 2016 | Default is ON. |
| 2017 | |
| 2018 | history filename NAME: NAME is where the gdb command history |
| 2019 | will be stored. The default is .gdb_history, |
| 2020 | or the value of the environment variable |
| 2021 | GDBHISTFILE. |
| 2022 | |
| 2023 | history size N: The size, in commands, of the command history. The |
| 2024 | default is 256, or the value of the environment variable |
| 2025 | HISTSIZE. |
| 2026 | |
| 2027 | history save on/off: If this value is set to ON, the history file will |
| 2028 | be saved after exiting gdb. If set to OFF, the |
| 2029 | file will not be saved. The default is OFF. |
| 2030 | |
| 2031 | history expansion on/off: If this value is set to ON, then csh-like |
| 2032 | history expansion will be performed on |
| 2033 | command line input. The default is OFF. |
| 2034 | |
| 2035 | radix N: Sets the default radix for input and output. It can be set |
| 2036 | to 8, 10, or 16. Note that the argument to "radix" is interpreted |
| 2037 | in the current radix, so "set radix 10" is always a no-op. |
| 2038 | |
| 2039 | height N: This integer value is the number of lines on a page. Default |
| 2040 | is 24, the current `stty rows'' setting, or the ``li#'' |
| 2041 | setting from the termcap entry matching the environment |
| 2042 | variable TERM. |
| 2043 | |
| 2044 | width N: This integer value is the number of characters on a line. |
| 2045 | Default is 80, the current `stty cols'' setting, or the ``co#'' |
| 2046 | setting from the termcap entry matching the environment |
| 2047 | variable TERM. |
| 2048 | |
| 2049 | Note: ``set screensize'' is obsolete. Use ``set height'' and |
| 2050 | ``set width'' instead. |
| 2051 | |
| 2052 | print address on/off: Print memory addresses in various command displays, |
| 2053 | such as stack traces and structure values. Gdb looks |
| 2054 | more ``symbolic'' if you turn this off; it looks more |
| 2055 | ``machine level'' with it on. Default is ON. |
| 2056 | |
| 2057 | print array on/off: Prettyprint arrays. New convenient format! Default |
| 2058 | is OFF. |
| 2059 | |
| 2060 | print demangle on/off: Print C++ symbols in "source" form if on, |
| 2061 | "raw" form if off. |
| 2062 | |
| 2063 | print asm-demangle on/off: Same, for assembler level printouts |
| 2064 | like instructions. |
| 2065 | |
| 2066 | print vtbl on/off: Prettyprint C++ virtual function tables. Default is OFF. |
| 2067 | |
| 2068 | |
| 2069 | * Support for Epoch Environment. |
| 2070 | |
| 2071 | The epoch environment is a version of Emacs v18 with windowing. One |
| 2072 | new command, ``inspect'', is identical to ``print'', except that if you |
| 2073 | are running in the epoch environment, the value is printed in its own |
| 2074 | window. |
| 2075 | |
| 2076 | |
| 2077 | * Support for Shared Libraries |
| 2078 | |
| 2079 | GDB can now debug programs and core files that use SunOS shared libraries. |
| 2080 | Symbols from a shared library cannot be referenced |
| 2081 | before the shared library has been linked with the program (this |
| 2082 | happens after you type ``run'' and before the function main() is entered). |
| 2083 | At any time after this linking (including when examining core files |
| 2084 | from dynamically linked programs), gdb reads the symbols from each |
| 2085 | shared library when you type the ``sharedlibrary'' command. |
| 2086 | It can be abbreviated ``share''. |
| 2087 | |
| 2088 | sharedlibrary REGEXP: Load shared object library symbols for files |
| 2089 | matching a unix regular expression. No argument |
| 2090 | indicates to load symbols for all shared libraries. |
| 2091 | |
| 2092 | info sharedlibrary: Status of loaded shared libraries. |
| 2093 | |
| 2094 | |
| 2095 | * Watchpoints |
| 2096 | |
| 2097 | A watchpoint stops execution of a program whenever the value of an |
| 2098 | expression changes. Checking for this slows down execution |
| 2099 | tremendously whenever you are in the scope of the expression, but is |
| 2100 | quite useful for catching tough ``bit-spreader'' or pointer misuse |
| 2101 | problems. Some machines such as the 386 have hardware for doing this |
| 2102 | more quickly, and future versions of gdb will use this hardware. |
| 2103 | |
| 2104 | watch EXP: Set a watchpoint (breakpoint) for an expression. |
| 2105 | |
| 2106 | info watchpoints: Information about your watchpoints. |
| 2107 | |
| 2108 | delete N: Deletes watchpoint number N (same as breakpoints). |
| 2109 | disable N: Temporarily turns off watchpoint number N (same as breakpoints). |
| 2110 | enable N: Re-enables watchpoint number N (same as breakpoints). |
| 2111 | |
| 2112 | |
| 2113 | * C++ multiple inheritance |
| 2114 | |
| 2115 | When used with a GCC version 2 compiler, GDB supports multiple inheritance |
| 2116 | for C++ programs. |
| 2117 | |
| 2118 | * C++ exception handling |
| 2119 | |
| 2120 | Gdb now supports limited C++ exception handling. Besides the existing |
| 2121 | ability to breakpoint on an exception handler, gdb can breakpoint on |
| 2122 | the raising of an exception (before the stack is peeled back to the |
| 2123 | handler's context). |
| 2124 | |
| 2125 | catch FOO: If there is a FOO exception handler in the dynamic scope, |
| 2126 | set a breakpoint to catch exceptions which may be raised there. |
| 2127 | Multiple exceptions (``catch foo bar baz'') may be caught. |
| 2128 | |
| 2129 | info catch: Lists all exceptions which may be caught in the |
| 2130 | current stack frame. |
| 2131 | |
| 2132 | |
| 2133 | * Minor command changes |
| 2134 | |
| 2135 | The command ``call func (arg, arg, ...)'' now acts like the print |
| 2136 | command, except it does not print or save a value if the function's result |
| 2137 | is void. This is similar to dbx usage. |
| 2138 | |
| 2139 | The ``up'' and ``down'' commands now always print the frame they end up |
| 2140 | at; ``up-silently'' and `down-silently'' can be used in scripts to change |
| 2141 | frames without printing. |
| 2142 | |
| 2143 | * New directory command |
| 2144 | |
| 2145 | 'dir' now adds directories to the FRONT of the source search path. |
| 2146 | The path starts off empty. Source files that contain debug information |
| 2147 | about the directory in which they were compiled can be found even |
| 2148 | with an empty path; Sun CC and GCC include this information. If GDB can't |
| 2149 | find your source file in the current directory, type "dir .". |
| 2150 | |
| 2151 | * Configuring GDB for compilation |
| 2152 | |
| 2153 | For normal use, type ``./configure host''. See README or gdb.texinfo |
| 2154 | for more details. |
| 2155 | |
| 2156 | GDB now handles cross debugging. If you are remotely debugging between |
| 2157 | two different machines, type ``./configure host -target=targ''. |
| 2158 | Host is the machine where GDB will run; targ is the machine |
| 2159 | where the program that you are debugging will run. |