* config/arm/embed.mt (SIM_OBS, SIM): Remove.

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / NEWS

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index b3bd08a913ec1584ea73d61f621a61483ca374f9..26a658b09402a2619d4ed14fcdf5a93758c17218 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,43 @@
                What has changed in GDB?
             (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 6.6
+*** Changes since GDB 6.7
+
+* New commands
+
+set print frame-arguments (all|scalars|none)
+show print frame-arguments
+  The value of this variable can be changed to control which argument
+  values should be printed by the debugger when displaying a frame.
+
+* GDB can now be built as a native debugger for debugging Windows x86
+(mingw32) Portable Executable (PE) programs.
+
+* Pending breakpoints no longer change their number when their address
+is resolved.
+
+* GDB now supports breakpoints with multiple locations,
+including breakpoints on C++ constructors, inside C++ templates,
+and in inlined functions.
+
+* Target descriptions can now describe registers for PowerPC.
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports the AltiVec and SPE
+registers on PowerPC targets.
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports thread debugging on GNU/Linux
+targets even when the libthread_db library is not available.
+
+* hppa*64*-*-hpux11* target broken
+  The debugger is unable to start a program and fails with the following
+  error: "Error trying to get information about dynamic linker".
+  The gdb-6.7 release is also affected.
+
+*** Changes in GDB 6.7
+
+* Resolved 101 resource leaks, null pointer dereferences, etc. in gdb, 
+bfd, libiberty and opcodes, as revealed by static analysis donated by
+Coverity, Inc. (http://scan.coverity.com).
 
 * When looking up multiply-defined global symbols, GDB will now prefer the
 symbol definition in the current shared library if it was built using the
@@ -23,12 +59,16 @@ frequency signals (e.g. SIGALRM) via the QPassSignals packet.
 target's overall architecture.  GDB can read a description from
 a local file or over the remote serial protocol.
 
-* Arrays of explicitly SIGNED or UNSIGNED CHARs are now printed as arrays
-of numbers.
+* Vectors of single-byte data use a new integer type which is not
+automatically displayed as character or string data.
+
+* The /s format now works with the print command.  It displays
+arrays of single-byte integers and pointers to single-byte integers
+as strings.
 
 * Target descriptions can now describe target-specific registers,
 for architectures which have implemented the support (currently
-only ARM and MIPS).
+only ARM, M68K, and MIPS).
 
 * GDB and the GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now support the XScale
 iWMMXt coprocessor.
@@ -54,6 +94,12 @@ packet, this response allows GDB to debug shared libraries on targets
 where the operating system manages the list of loaded libraries (e.g.
 Windows and SymbianOS).
 
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports dynamic link libraries
+(DLLs) on Windows and Windows CE targets.
+
+* GDB now supports a faster verification that a .debug file matches its binary
+according to its build-id signature, if the signature is present.
+
 * New commands
 
 set remoteflow