2004-06-07 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>

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

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
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+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,59 @@
                What has changed in GDB?
             (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 6.0:
+*** Changes since GDB 6.1:
+
+* New ``start'' command.
+
+This command runs the program until the begining of the main procedure.
+
+* Signal trampoline code overhauled
+
+Many generic problems with GDB's signal handling code have been fixed.
+These include: backtraces through non-contiguous stacks; recognition
+of sa_sigaction signal trampolines; backtrace from a NULL pointer
+call; backtrace through a signal trampoline; step into and out of
+signal handlers; and single-stepping in the signal trampoline.
+
+These fixes were tested on i386 GNU/Linux systems that include a 2.4
+kernel.
+
+* Cygwin support for DWARF 2 added.
+
+* Fixed build problem on IRIX 5
+
+Due to header problems with <sys/proc.h>, the file gdb/proc-api.c
+wasn't able to compile compile on an IRIX 5 system.
+
+* Added execute permission to gdb/gdbserver/configure
+
+The shell script gdb/testsuite/gdb.stabs/configure lacked execute
+permission.  This bug would cause configure to fail on a number of
+systems (Solaris, IRIX).  Ref: server/519.
+
+* New native configurations
+
+OpenBSD/m68k                                   m68*-*-openbsd*
+OpenBSD/m88k                                   m88*-*-openbsd*
+OpenBSD/powerpc                                        powerpc-*-openbsd*
+NetBSD/vax                                     vax-*-netbsd*
+OpenBSD/vax                                    vax-*-openbsd*
+
+* REMOVED configurations and files
+
+Sun 3, running SunOS 3                         m68*-*-sunos3*
+Sun 3, running SunOS 4                         m68*-*-sunos4*
+Sun 2, running SunOS 3                         m68000-*-sunos3*
+Sun 2, running SunOS 4                         m68000-*-sunos4*
+Motorola 680x0 running LynxOS                  m68*-*-lynxos*
+AT&T 3b1/Unix pc                               m68*-att-*
+Bull DPX2 (68k, System V release 3)            m68*-bull-sysv*
+decstation                                     mips-dec-* mips-little-*
+riscos                                         mips-*-riscos* mips-*-sysv*
+sonymips                                       mips-sony-*
+sysv                                   mips*-*-sysv4* (IRIX 5/6 not included)
+
+*** Changes in GDB 6.1:
 
 * Removed --with-mmalloc
 
@@ -36,9 +88,22 @@ GDB support for location expressions has been extended to support function
 arguments and frame bases.  Older versions of GDB could crash when they
 encountered these.
 
+* C++ nested types and namespaces
+
+GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
+improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format.  (This
+is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
+Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
+namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
+"Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner".  This should greatly reduce the
+frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols.  In addition,
+if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within a namespace,
+GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
+
 * New native configurations
 
 NetBSD/amd64                                   x86_64-*-netbsd*
+OpenBSD/amd64                                  x86_64-*-openbsd*
 OpenBSD/alpha                                  alpha*-*-openbsd*
 OpenBSD/sparc                                  sparc-*-openbsd*
 OpenBSD/sparc64                                        sparc64-*-openbsd*