Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3]

Jeff Johnston
2004-02-02T22:18:28Z

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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:12:17PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
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>>Patch checked in. I have included the final patch here with the
>>reworded message.
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>I suspect this deserves a NEWS entry. Mind taking care of that?
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Ok, how about the accompanying patch?

-- Jeff J.

2004-02-02 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>

* NEWS: Add information about new pending breakpoint support.

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Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.134
diff -u -r1.134 NEWS
--- NEWS 22 Jan 2004 23:18:03 -0000 1.134
+++ NEWS 2 Feb 2004 22:16:45 -0000
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@

*** Changes since GDB 6.0:

+* Pending breakpoint support
+
+Support has been added to allow specifying breakpoints in shared libraries
+that have not yet been loaded. If a breakpoint location cannot be found,
+you are queried to see if you wish to make the breakpoint pending on a
+future shared-library load. If and when the breakpoint symbol is resolved,
+the pending breakpoint is removed as one or more regular breakpoints are
+created. Pending breakpoints are very useful for gcj java debugging.
+
* Removed --with-mmalloc

Support for the mmalloc memory manager has been removed, as it