From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27693 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2009 23:39:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 27684 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Feb 2009 23:39:12 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:39:08 +0000 Received: (qmail 25235 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2009 23:39:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 6 Feb 2009 23:39:07 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: [NEWS] Mention signal info inspection support Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:39:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902062339.21716.pedro@codesourcery.com> 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: 2009-02/txt/msg00167.txt.bz2 Eli, does this look OK? -- Pedro Alves 2009-02-06 Pedro Alves * NEWS: Mention inspecting extra signal information, $_siginfo, and the qXfer:siginfo:read and qXfer:siginfo:write packets. --- gdb/NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) Index: src/gdb/NEWS =================================================================== --- src.orig/gdb/NEWS 2009-02-06 23:13:17.000000000 +0000 +++ src/gdb/NEWS 2009-02-06 23:28:25.000000000 +0000 @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ completions will be "f1" and "f2". operators when expanding macros. It also supports variable-arity macros. +* GDB now supports inspecting extra signal information, exported by + the new $_siginfo convenience variable. The feature is currently + implemented on linux ARM, i386 and amd64. + * New remote packets qSearch:memory: @@ -39,6 +43,10 @@ QStartNoAckMode qXfer:osdata:read Obtains additional operating system information +qXfer:siginfo:read +qXfer:siginfo:write + Read or write additional signal information. + * Removed remote protocol undocumented extension An undocumented extension to the remote protocol's `S' stop reply