From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24801 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2004 16:04:16 -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 24792 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2004 16:04:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Nov 2004 16:04:15 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA1G449A009531 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:04:14 -0500 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (to-dhcp51.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.151]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iA1G44r21127; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:04:04 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C81129DD6; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:00:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41865DAB.8010003@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:04:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041020) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: [patch/rfc] More NEWS for 6.3 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010703020600000204000400" X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010703020600000204000400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 92 Hello, This fleshes out the 6.3 news entry a bit. Ada is still missing. comments? Andrew --------------010703020600000204000400 Content-Type: text/plain; name="diffs" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="diffs" Content-length: 2163 2004-11-01 Andrew Cagney * gdb/NEWS: Mention internationalization, m32r-*-linux-gnu, 'p' packet, obsolete configurations, end-of-life deprecated_registers. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.163 diff -p -u -r1.163 NEWS --- NEWS 25 Oct 2004 18:50:09 -0000 1.163 +++ NEWS 1 Nov 2004 15:59:20 -0000 @@ -14,6 +14,59 @@ by GCC with the option -feliminate-dwarf proprietary compilers. With GCC, you must use GCC 3.3.4 or later to use -feliminate-dwarf2-dups. +* Internationalization + +When supported by the host system, GDB will be built with +internationalization (libintl). The task of marking up the sources is +continued, we're looking forward to our first translation. + +* New native configurations + +GNU/Linux/m32r m32r-*-linux-gnu + +* Remote 'p' packet + +GDB's remote protocol now includes support for the 'p' packet and is +used to fetch individual registers. + +* END-OF-LIFE registers[] compatibility module + +GDB's internal register infrastructure has been completely rewritten. +The new infrastructure making possible the implementation of key new +features including 32x64 (e.g., 64-bit amd64 GDB debugging a 32-bit +i386 application). + +GDB 6.3 will be the last release to include the the registers[] +compatibility module that allowed out-of-date configurations to +continue to work. This change directly impacts the following +configurations: + +hppa-*-hpux +ia64-*-aix +mips-*-irix* +*-*-lynx +mips-*-linux-gnu +sds protocol +xdr protocol +powerpc bdm protocol + +Unless there is activity to revive these configurations, they will be +made OBSOLETE in GDB 6.4, and REMOVED from GDB 6.5. + +* OBSOLETE configurations and files + +Configurations that have been declared obsolete in this release have +been commented out. Unless there is activity to revive these +configurations, the next release of GDB will have their sources +permanently REMOVED. + +h8300-*-* +mcore-*-* +mn10300-*-* +ns32k-*-* +sh64-*-* +v850-*-* + *** Changes in GDB 6.2.1: * MIPS `break main; run' gave an heuristic-fence-post warning --------------010703020600000204000400--