Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 11.1 released!

Simon Marchi
2021-10-28T21:09:38Z

Hi Joel,

I noticed this page:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/

Still says 10.2 is the latest release.

Simon

On 2021-09-12 10:51 p.m., Joel Brobecker wrote:
>
> GDB 11.1 released!
>
> Release 11.1 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available. GDB is
> a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many
> other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on)
> more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself
> can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows variants.
> GDB is free (libre) software.
>
> You can download GDB from the GNU FTP server in the directory:
>
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb
>
> The vital stats:
>
> Size md5sum Name
> 22MiB 257cb0f67927f79acf636d8c01e19990 gdb-11.1.tar.xz
> 37MiB eb6596d83bdccea06caa6d49d923e119 gdb-11.1.tar.gz
>
> There is a web page for GDB at:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/
>
> That page includes information about GDB mailing lists (an announcement
> mailing list, developers discussion lists, etc.), details on how to
> access GDB's source repository, locations for development snapshots,
> preformatted documentation, and links to related information around
> the net. We will put errata notes and host-specific tips for this release
> on-line as any problems come up. All mailing lists archives are also
> browsable via the web.
>
> GDB 11.1 includes the following changes and enhancements:
>
> * Support for ARM Symbian (arm*-*-symbianelf*) has been removed.
>
> * Building GDB now requires GMP (The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic
> Library).
>
> * New command-line options "--early-init-command" (or "-eix")
> and "--early-init-eval-command" (or "-eiex")
>
> * GDB/MI Changes:
>
> ** New --qualified option for the '-break-insert' and '-dprintf-insert'
> commands.
>
> ** New --force-condition option for the '-break-insert' and
> '-dprintf-insert' commands.
>
> ** New --force option for the '-break-condition' command.
>
> ** The '-file-list-exec-source-files' now accepts an optional regular
> expression to filter the source files included in the result.
>
> ** The results from '-file-list-exec-source-files' now include
> a 'debug-fully-read' field to indicate if the corresponding
> source's debugging information has been partially read (false)
> or has been fully read (true).
>
> * TUI Improvements:
>
> ** Mouse actions are now supported. The mouse wheel scrolls
> the appropriate window.
>
> ** Key combinations that do not have a specific action on the
> focused window are now passed to GDB.
>
> * Python enhancements:
>
> ** Inferior objects now contain a read-only 'connection_num' attribute that
> gives the connection number as seen in 'info connections' and
> 'info inferiors'.
>
> ** New method gdb.Frame.level() which returns the stack level of the
> frame object.
>
> ** New method gdb.PendingFrame.level() which returns the stack level
> of the frame object.
>
> ** When hitting a catchpoint, the Python API will now emit a
> gdb.BreakpointEvent rather than a gdb.StopEvent. The
> gdb.Breakpoint attached to the event will have type BP_CATCHPOINT.
>
> ** Python TUI windows can now receive mouse click events. If the
> Window object implements the click method, it is called for each
> mouse click event in this window.
>
> ** New setting "python ignore-environment on|off"; if "on", causes
> GDB's builtin Python to ignore any environment variable that would
> otherwise affect how Python behaves (needs to be set during
> "early initialization" (see above).
>
> ** New setting "python dont-write-bytecode auto|on|off".
>
> * Guile API enhancements:
>
> ** Improved support for rvalue reference values.
>
> ** New procedures for obtaining value variants:
> value-reference-value, value-rvalue-reference-value and
> value-const-value.
>
> * New "qMemTags" and "QMemTags" remote protocol packets
> (associated with Memory Tagging).
>
> * GDB will now look for the .gdbinit file in a config directory before
> looking for ~/.gdbinit. The file is searched for in the following
> locations: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gdb/gdbinit, $HOME/.config/gdb/gdbinit,
> $HOME/.gdbinit. On Apple hosts the search order is instead:
> $HOME/Library/Preferences/gdb/gdbinit, $HOME/.gdbinit.
>
> * The "break [...] if CONDITION" command no longer returns an error
> when the condition is invalid at one or more locations. Instead,
> if the condition is valid at one or more locations, the locations
> where the condition is not valid are disabled.
>
> The behavior of the "condition" command is changed to match
> the new behavior of the "break" command.
>
> * Support for general memory tagging functionality (currently limited
> to AArch64 MTE)
>
> * Core file debugging now supported for x86_64 Cygwin programs.
>
> * New "org.gnu.gdb.riscv.vector" feature for RISC-V targets.
>
> * GDB now supports fixed point types which are described in DWARF
> as base types with a fixed-point encoding. Additionally, support
> for the DW_AT_GNU_numerator and DW_AT_GNU_denominator has also
> been added.
>
> * Miscellaneous:
>
> ** New "startup-quietly on|off" setting; when "on", behaves the same
> as passing the "-silent" option on the command line.
>
> ** New "print type hex on|off" setting; when 'on', the 'ptype' command
> uses hexadecimal notation to print sizes and offsets of struct
> members. When 'off', decimal notation is used.
>
> ** The "inferior" command, when run without argument, prints
> information about the current inferior.
>
> ** The "ptype" command now supports "/x" and "/d", affecting the base
> used to print sizes and offsets.
>
> ** The output of the "info source" has been restructured.
>
> ** New "style version foreground | background | intensity" commands
> to control the styling of the GDB version number.
>
> ** Various debug and maintenance commands (mostly useful for
> the GDB developers)
>
> For a complete list and more details on each item, please see the gdb/NEWS
> file, available at:
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gdb/NEWS;hb=gdb-11.1-release
>
> --
> Joel Brobecker
>