From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26524 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2006 22:41:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 26509 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Nov 2006 22:41:32 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:41:25 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GpBdj-0000x3-IU for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:41:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: [rfa] NEWS updates for HEAD Message-ID: <20061128224123.GE2142@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2006-11/txt/msg00363.txt.bz2 This is everything I saw which has been added since the 6.6 branch that I meant to add to NEWS. OK? Someone should check over NEWS for 6.6, too; I think a few things were missed, but it will be harder to pick them out now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery 2006-11-28 Daniel Jacobowitz * NEWS: Mention MIPS remote autodetection, mips64 gdbserver, "set mem inaccessible-by-default", and "set breakpoint auto-hw". Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.203 diff -u -p -r1.203 NEWS --- NEWS 24 Nov 2006 20:19:37 -0000 1.203 +++ NEWS 28 Nov 2006 22:39:18 -0000 @@ -6,6 +6,32 @@ * The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now has lower overhead for high frequency signals (e.g. SIGALRM) via the QPassSignals packet. +* GDB for MIPS targets now autodetects whether a remote target provides +32-bit or 64-bit register values. + +* New commands + +set mem inaccessible-by-default +show mem inaccessible-by-default + If the target supplies a memory map, for instance via the remote + protocol's "qXfer:memory-map:read" packet, setting this variable + prevents GDB from accessing memory outside the memory map. This + is useful for targets with memory mapped registers or which react + badly to accesses of unmapped address space. + +set breakpoint auto-hw +show breakpoint auto-hw + If the target supplies a memory map, for instance via the remote + protocol's "qXfer:memory-map:read" packet, setting this variable + lets GDB use hardware breakpoints automatically for memory regions + where it can not use software breakpoints. This covers both the + "break" command and internal breakpoints used for other commands + including "next" and "finish". + +* New targets + +MIPS64 GNU/Linux (gdbserver) mips64-linux-gnu + * New remote packets QPassSignals: