* ppc-tdep.h (struct gdbarch_tdep): Remove ppc_ev31_regnum member.

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / NEWS

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 0854c8ec3d0bcdf848249a889cfdc0e94ed33d53..ea55423c5737036fc8fd9337acd2befaadae6c61 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,101 @@
                What has changed in GDB?
             (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 6.6
+*** Changes since GDB 6.7
+
+* New native configurations
+
+NetBSD/hppa                    hppa*-*netbsd*
+
+* New targets
+
+NetBSD/hppa                    hppa*-*-netbsd*
+
+* Change in command line behavior -- corefiles vs. process ids.
+
+  When the '-p NUMBER' or '--pid NUMBER' options are used, and
+  attaching to process NUMBER fails, GDB no longer attempts to open a
+  core file named NUMBER.  Attaching to a program using the -c option
+  is no longer supported.  Instead, use the '-p' or '--pid' options.
+
+* New commands
+
+set print frame-arguments (all|scalars|none)
+show print frame-arguments
+  The value of this variable can be changed to control which argument
+  values should be printed by the debugger when displaying a frame.
+
+* GDB can now be built as a native debugger for debugging Windows x86
+(mingw32) Portable Executable (PE) programs.
+
+* Pending breakpoints no longer change their number when their address
+is resolved.
+
+* GDB now supports breakpoints with multiple locations,
+including breakpoints on C++ constructors, inside C++ templates,
+and in inlined functions.
+
+* GDB's ability to debug optimized code has been improved.  GDB more
+accurately identifies function bodies and lexical blocks that occupy
+more than one contiguous range of addresses.
+
+* Target descriptions can now describe registers for PowerPC.
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports the AltiVec and SPE
+registers on PowerPC targets.
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports thread debugging on GNU/Linux
+targets even when the libthread_db library is not available.
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports the new file transfer
+commands (remote put, remote get, and remote delete).
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports run and attach in
+extended-remote mode.
+
+* hppa*64*-*-hpux11* target broken
+  The debugger is unable to start a program and fails with the following
+  error: "Error trying to get information about dynamic linker".
+  The gdb-6.7 release is also affected.
+
+* GDB now supports the --enable-targets= configure option to allow
+building a single GDB executable that supports multiple remote
+target architectures.
+
+* New commands
+
+remote put
+remote get
+remote delete
+  Transfer files to and from a remote target, and delete remote files.
+
+* New MI commands
+
+-target-file-put
+-target-file-get
+-target-file-delete
+  Transfer files to and from a remote target, and delete remote files.
+
+* New remote packets
+
+vFile:open:
+vFile:close:
+vFile:pread:
+vFile:pwrite:
+vFile:unlink:
+  Open, close, read, write, and delete files on the remote system.
+
+* GDB on GNU/Linux and HP/UX can now debug through "exec" of a new
+process.
+
+vAttach
+  Attach to an existing process on the remote system, in extended-remote
+  mode.
+
+vRun
+  Run a new process on the remote system, in extended-remote mode.
+
+*** Changes in GDB 6.7
 
 * Resolved 101 resource leaks, null pointer dereferences, etc. in gdb, 
 bfd, libiberty and opcodes, as revealed by static analysis donated by
@@ -27,12 +121,16 @@ frequency signals (e.g. SIGALRM) via the QPassSignals packet.
 target's overall architecture.  GDB can read a description from
 a local file or over the remote serial protocol.
 
-* Arrays of explicitly SIGNED or UNSIGNED CHARs are now printed as arrays
-of numbers.
+* Vectors of single-byte data use a new integer type which is not
+automatically displayed as character or string data.
+
+* The /s format now works with the print command.  It displays
+arrays of single-byte integers and pointers to single-byte integers
+as strings.
 
 * Target descriptions can now describe target-specific registers,
 for architectures which have implemented the support (currently
-only ARM and MIPS).
+only ARM, M68K, and MIPS).
 
 * GDB and the GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now support the XScale
 iWMMXt coprocessor.
@@ -61,6 +159,9 @@ Windows and SymbianOS).
 * The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports dynamic link libraries
 (DLLs) on Windows and Windows CE targets.
 
+* GDB now supports a faster verification that a .debug file matches its binary
+according to its build-id signature, if the signature is present.
+
 * New commands
 
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