From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Subject: [RFA/NEWS] Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port.
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263048933-23526-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> (raw)
Hello,
As promised, here is a patch that documents relatively precisely
the improvements made to date to the mips-irix port. I added this
entry to the "Bug fixes" subsection for the "since 7.0" section...
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port.
OK to commit?
Thanks,
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Joel
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gdb/NEWS | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 1f322b3..da99aa5 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -166,6 +166,24 @@ qTfP, qTsP
Process record now works correctly with hardware watchpoints.
+Multiple bug fixes have been made to the mips-irix port, making it
+much more reliable. In particular:
+ - Debugging threaded applications is now possible again. Previously,
+ GDB would hang while starting the program, or while waiting for
+ the program to stop at a breakpoint.
+ - Attaching to a running process no longer hangs.
+ - An error occurring while loading a core file has been fixed.
+ - Changing the value of the PC register now works again. This fixes
+ problems observed when using the "jump" command, or when calling
+ a function from GDB, or even when assigning a new value to $pc.
+ - With the "finish" and "return" commands, the return value for functions
+ returning a small array is now correctly printed.
+ - It is now possible to break on shared library code which gets executed
+ during a shared library init phase (code executed while executing
+ their .init section). Previously, the breakpoint would have no effect.
+ - GDB is now able to backtrace through the signal handler for
+ non-threaded programs.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.0
* GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation. Applications that
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1.6.3.3
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2010-01-09 14:55 Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-01-09 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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