* symfile.h (struct sym_fns): Add new field sym_read_linetable.

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

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 81480738c4c8c3673a81b1c059dde670a04572f6..a7c3aab9af9c7c55c3776d7af3ff3fa68945f625 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
                What has changed in GDB?
             (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 6.6
+*** Changes since GDB 6.7
+
+*** Changes in GDB 6.6
+
+* 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
+-Bsymbolic linker option.
 
 * When the Text User Interface (TUI) is not configured, GDB will now
 recognize the -tui command-line option and print a message that the TUI
@@ -19,8 +29,12 @@ 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
@@ -50,6 +64,12 @@ 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
 
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