From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28730 invoked by alias); 12 Jun 2004 17:53:47 -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 28700 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2004 17:53:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 12 Jun 2004 17:53:46 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5CHrki7023931 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:53:46 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5CHrj029621; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:53:45 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DB92B9D; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:53:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40CB431D.7000308@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:53:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: [patch/rfc] More 6.1.1 NEWS updates Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010205000906070405060900" X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00289.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010205000906070405060900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 159 I went to mention the pending breakpoint fix but found that pending breakpoints hadn't been announced! This should be it for NEWS entries. comments? Andrew --------------010205000906070405060900 Content-Type: text/plain; name="diffs" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="diffs" Content-length: 2052 2004-06-12 Andrew Cagney * NEWS: Describe the problems fixed by the location-expression, and DW_EH_PE_funcrel changes. Mention pending breakpoints (based on earlier posts from Jeff Johnston and Eli Zaretskii). Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.138.2.7 diff -p -u -r1.138.2.7 NEWS --- NEWS 11 Jun 2004 18:37:33 -0000 1.138.2.7 +++ NEWS 12 Jun 2004 17:51:22 -0000 @@ -3,6 +3,18 @@ *** Changes in GDB 6.1.1: +* Pending breakpoint support (also included in GDB 6.1) + +Support has been added to allow you to specify breakpoints in shared +libraries that have not yet been loaded. If a breakpoint location +cannot be found, and the "breakpoint pending" option is set to auto, +GDB queries you if you wish to make the breakpoint pending on a future +shared-library load. If and when GDB resolves the breakpoint symbol, +the pending breakpoint is removed as one or more regular breakpoints +are created. + +Pending breakpoints are very useful for GCJ Java debugging. + * Fixed ISO-C build problems The files bfd/elf-bfd.h, gdb/dictionary.c and gdb/types.c contained @@ -25,10 +37,17 @@ systems (Solaris, IRIX). Ref: server/51 Older HPUX ANSI C compilers did not accept variable array sizes. somsolib.c has been updated to use constant array sizes. -* Bug fixes +* Fixed a panic in the DWARF Call Frame Info code on Solaris 2.7 + +GCC 3.3.2, on Solaris 2.7, includes the DW_EH_PE_funcrel encoding in +its generated DWARF Call Frame Info. This encoding was causing GDB to +panic, that panic has been fixed. Ref: gdb/1628. + +* Fixed a problem when examining parameters in shared library code. -gdb/1628: GDB now handles the DW_EH_PE_funcrel encoding in DWARF Call -Frame Info. +When examining parameters in optimized shared library code generated +by a mainline GCC, GDB would incorrectly report ``Variable "..." is +not available''. GDB now correctly displays the variable's value. *** Changes in GDB 6.1: --------------010205000906070405060900--