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

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 05:18:26PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:12:17PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Patch checked in.  I have included the final patch here with the 
> >>reworded message.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I suspect this deserves a NEWS entry.  Mind taking care of that?
> > 
> >
> Ok, how about the accompanying patch?

OK.  And here I had no idea you were working on gcj support...

> 
> -- Jeff J.
> 
> 2004-02-02  Jeff Johnston  <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
> 
>        * NEWS: Add information about new pending breakpoint support.
> 
> 

> 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


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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