What has changed since GDB-3.5?
(Organized release by release)
+*** Changes in GDB-4.11:
+
+* User visible changes:
+
+* Remote Debugging
+
+The "set remotedebug" option is now consistent between the mips remote
+target, remote targets using the gdb-specific protocol, UDI (AMD's
+debug protocol for the 29k) and the 88k bug monitor. It is now an
+integer specifying a debug level (normally 0 or 1, but 2 means more
+debugging info for the mips target).
+
+* DEC Alpha native support
+
+GDB now works on the DEC Alpha. GCC 2.4.5 does not produce usable
+debug info, but GDB works fairly well with the DEC compiler and should
+work with a future GCC release. See the README file for a few
+Alpha-specific notes.
+
+* Preliminary thread implementation
+
+GDB now has preliminary thread support for both SGI/Irix and LynxOS.
+
+* LynxOS native and target support for 386
+
+This release has been hosted on LynxOS 2.2, and also can be configured
+to remotely debug programs running under LynxOS (see gdb/gdbserver/README
+for details).
+
+* Improvements in C++ mangling/demangling.
+
+This release has much better g++ debugging, specifically in name
+mangling/demangling, virtual function calls, print virtual table,
+call methods, ...etc.
+
+*** Changes in GDB-4.10:
+
+ * User visible changes:
+
+Remote debugging using the GDB-specific (`target remote') protocol now
+supports the `load' command. This is only useful if you have some
+other way of getting the stub to the target system, and you can put it
+somewhere in memory where it won't get clobbered by the download.
+
+Filename completion now works.
+
+When run under emacs mode, the "info line" command now causes the
+arrow to point to the line specified. Also, "info line" prints
+addresses in symbolic form (as well as hex).
+
+All vxworks based targets now support a user settable option, called
+vxworks-timeout. This option represents the number of seconds gdb
+should wait for responses to rpc's. You might want to use this if
+your vxworks target is, perhaps, a slow software simulator or happens
+to be on the far side of a thin network line.
+
+ * DEC alpha support
+
+This release contains support for using a DEC alpha as a GDB host for
+cross debugging. Native alpha debugging is not supported yet.
+
+
+*** Changes in GDB-4.9:
+
+ * Testsuite
+
+This is the first GDB release which is accompanied by a matching testsuite.
+The testsuite requires installation of dejagnu, which should be available
+via ftp from most sites that carry GNU software.
+
+ * C++ demangling
+
+'Cfront' style demangling has had its name changed to 'ARM' style, to
+emphasize that it was written from the specifications in the C++ Annotated
+Reference Manual, not necessarily to be compatible with AT&T cfront. Despite
+disclaimers, it still generated too much confusion with users attempting to
+use gdb with AT&T cfront.
+
+ * Simulators
+
+GDB now uses a standard remote interface to a simulator library.
+So far, the library contains simulators for the Zilog Z8001/2, the
+Hitachi H8/300, H8/500 and Super-H.
+
+ * New targets supported
+
+H8/300 simulator h8300-hitachi-hms or h8300hms
+H8/500 simulator h8500-hitachi-hms or h8500hms
+SH simulator sh-hitachi-hms or sh
+Z8000 simulator z8k-zilog-none or z8ksim
+IDT MIPS board over serial line mips-idt-ecoff
+
+Cross-debugging to GO32 targets is supported. It requires a custom
+version of the i386-stub.c module which is integrated with the
+GO32 memory extender.
+
+ * New remote protocols
+
+MIPS remote debugging protocol.
+
+ * New source languages supported
+
+This version includes preliminary support for Chill, a Pascal like language
+used by telecommunications companies. Chill support is also being integrated
+into the GNU compiler, but we don't know when it will be publically available.
+
+
*** Changes in GDB-4.8:
* HP Precision Architecture supported
version of this support was available as a set of patches from the
University of Utah. GDB does not support debugging of programs
compiled with the HP compiler, because HP will not document their file
-format. Instead, you must use GCC (version 2.3.3 or later) and PA-GAS
+format. Instead, you must use GCC (version 2.3.2 or later) and PA-GAS
(as available from jaguar.cs.utah.edu:/dist/pa-gas.u4.tar.Z).
Many problems in the preliminary version have been fixed.
from the specifications in the Annotated Reference Manual, which AT&T's
compiler does not actually implement.
+ * G++ multiple inheritance compiler problem
+
+In the 2.3.2 release of gcc/g++, how the compiler resolves multiple
+inheritance lattices was reworked to properly discover ambiguities. We
+recently found an example which causes this new algorithm to fail in a
+very subtle way, producing bad debug information for those classes.
+The file 'gcc.patch' (in this directory) can be applied to gcc to
+circumvent the problem. A future GCC release will contain a complete
+fix.
+
+The previous G++ debug info problem (mentioned below for the gdb-4.7
+release) is fixed in gcc version 2.3.2.
+
* Improved configure script
The `configure' script will now attempt to guess your system type if
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