What has changed in GDB?
(Organized release by release)
-*** Changes since GDB 7.9
+*** Changes since GDB 7.10
+
+* Support for tracepoints on aarch64-linux was added in GDBserver.
+
+*** Changes in GDB 7.10
* Support for process record-replay and reverse debugging on aarch64*-linux*
targets has been added. GDB now supports recording of A64 instruction set
including advance SIMD instructions.
+* Support for Sun's version of the "stabs" debug file format has been removed.
+
* GDB now honors the content of the file /proc/PID/coredump_filter
(PID is the process ID) on GNU/Linux systems. This file can be used
to specify the types of memory mappings that will be included in a
set mpx bound on i386 and amd64
Support for bound table investigation on Intel(R) MPX enabled applications.
+record btrace pt
+record pt
+ Start branch trace recording using Intel(R) Processor Trace format.
+
+maint info btrace
+ Print information about branch tracing internals.
+
+maint btrace packet-history
+ Print the raw branch tracing data.
+
+maint btrace clear-packet-history
+ Discard the stored raw branch tracing data.
+
+maint btrace clear
+ Discard all branch tracing data. It will be fetched and processed
+ anew by the next "record" command.
+
* New options
set debug dwarf-die
to avoid generating large completion lists, the computation of
which can cause the debugger to become temporarily unresponsive.
+set history remove-duplicates
+show history remove-duplicates
+ Control the removal of duplicate history entries.
+
maint set symbol-cache-size
maint show symbol-cache-size
Control the size of the symbol cache.
show debug linux-namespaces
Control display of debugging info regarding Linux namespaces.
+set|show record btrace pt buffer-size
+ Set and show the size of the ring buffer used for branch tracing in
+ Intel(R) Processor Trace format.
+ The obtained size may differ from the requested size. Use "info
+ record" to see the obtained buffer size.
+
+maint set|show btrace pt skip-pad
+ Set and show whether PAD packets are skipped when computing the
+ packet history.
+
* The command 'thread apply all' can now support new option '-ascending'
to call its specified command for all threads in ascending order.
Qbtrace-conf:bts:size
Set the requested ring buffer size for branch tracing in BTS format.
+Qbtrace:pt
+ Enable Intel(R) Procesor Trace-based branch tracing for the current
+ process. The remote stub reports support for this packet to GDB's
+ qSupported query.
+
+Qbtrace-conf:pt:size
+ Set the requested ring buffer size for branch tracing in Intel(R) Processor
+ Trace format.
+
swbreak stop reason
Indicates a memory breakpoint instruction was executed, irrespective
of whether it was GDB that planted the breakpoint or the breakpoint
HP/PA running HP-UX hppa*-*-hpux*
Itanium running HP-UX ia64-*-hpux*
+* New configure options
+
+--with-intel-pt
+ This configure option allows the user to build GDB with support for
+ Intel(R) Processor Trace (default: auto). This requires libipt.
+
+--with-libipt-prefix=PATH
+ Specify the path to the version of libipt that GDB should use.
+ $PATH/include should contain the intel-pt.h header and
+ $PATH/lib should contain the libipt.so library.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.9.1
* Python Scripting