From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16638 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2010 14:55:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 16623 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2010 14:55:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:55:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B69F2BAB7B; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:55:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id gdsdF1xbf3fy; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:55:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C657E2BAB77; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:55:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D653AF595E; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 18:55:34 +0400 (RET) From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Joel Brobecker Subject: [RFA/NEWS] Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port. Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:55:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1263048933-23526-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 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, -- Joel --- gdb/NEWS | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) 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 -- 1.6.3.3