From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10843 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2004 22:21:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10826 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2004 22:21:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2004 22:21:15 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1AnmRO-00049s-RD; Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:21:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:21:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jeff Johnston Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3] Message-ID: <20040202222114.GA15928@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Johnston , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <4016CCE0.5060900@redhat.com> <20040130041316.GA28843@nevyn.them.org> <401AA79B.7010307@redhat.com> <20040130190927.GA19379@nevyn.them.org> <401ADEA3.6010500@redhat.com> <20040130234543.GA12519@nevyn.them.org> <401AF7E0.5020406@redhat.com> <401EBD31.9060907@redhat.com> <20040202212225.GA7982@nevyn.them.org> <401ECCB2.2010205@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <401ECCB2.2010205@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 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 > > * 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 -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer