From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20460 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2012 18:38:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 20447 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jul 2012 18:38:37 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,TW_BM,TW_FD,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD 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; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:38:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08B11C749D; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:38:23 -0400 (EDT) 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 suG29VmB8DyK; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:38:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AC31C7499; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:38:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C7ACA14561A; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:38:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Joel Brobecker Subject: [RFA/NEWS] Document --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:38:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1343241500-14584-1-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: 2012-07/txt/msg00572.txt.bz2 Hello, I just checked in a patch that expands the list of configure options for GDB, and it's only after pushing the patch that I realized that a NEWS entry should probably be added. Here it is. gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS: Document new --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck configure options. --- gdb/NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index 4da886c..a590bee 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ *** Changes since GDB 7.5 +* New configure options + +--enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck + By default, development versions are built with -lmcheck on hosts + that support it, in order to help track memory corruption issues. + Release versions, on the other hand, are built without -lmcheck + by default. The --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck configure + options allow the user to override that default. + * New commands (for set/show, see "New options" below) maint info bfds -- 1.7.1