From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9708 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2004 22:18:28 -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 9690 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2004 22:18:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO touchme.toronto.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2004 22:18:26 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (toocool.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.72]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C69A800195; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:18:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <401ECCB2.2010205@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:18:00 -0000 From: Jeff Johnston User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3] References: <400EE69A.5030902@redhat.com> <20040122222741.GA17425@nevyn.them.org> <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> In-Reply-To: <20040202212225.GA7982@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------030804010804020700070809" X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00044.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030804010804020700070809 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 441 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? -- Jeff J. 2004-02-02 Jeff Johnston * NEWS: Add information about new pending breakpoint support. --------------030804010804020700070809 Content-Type: text/plain; name="news.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="news.patch" Content-length: 859 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 --------------030804010804020700070809--