X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=gdb%2FNEWS;h=aed876ca7de28f6e6b42ceab4fd917e7babe1592;hb=c65ecaf37b02a936e0d8c4074da3b5da8017e464;hp=64cb12c6825d65d5fe7c549ef56f9670d8966ca8;hpb=9debab2f37e9afe2b5fa4e387f4f5f33f0e72421;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index 64cb12c682..aed876ca7d 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,48 @@ What has changed in GDB? (Organized release by release) +*** Changes since GDB 5.0: + +* "info symbol" works on platforms which use COFF, ECOFF, XCOFF, and NLM. + +* New native configurations + +Alpha FreeBSD alpha*-*-freebsd* +x86 FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x i[3456]86*-freebsd[34]* + +* New targets + +* OBSOLETE configurations and files + +x86 FreeBSD before 2.2 i[3456]86*-freebsd{1,2.[01]}*, +Harris/CXUX m88k m88*-harris-cxux* + +stuff.c (Program to stuff files into a specially prepared space in kdb) +kdb-start.c (Main loop for the standalone kernel debugger) + +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. + +* REMOVED configurations + +Altos 3068 m68*-altos-* +Convex c1-*-*, c2-*-* +Pyramid pyramid-*-* +ARM RISCix arm-*-* (as host) +Tahoe tahoe-*-* + +* Other news: + +* All MIPS configurations are multi-arched. + +Multi-arch support is enabled for all MIPS configurations. + +* gdba.el deleted + +GUD support is now a standard part of the EMACS distribution. + *** Changes in GDB 5.0: * Improved support for debugging FP programs on x86 targets @@ -72,6 +114,10 @@ but the code will be left in place. If there is no activity to revive these configurations before the next release of GDB, the sources will be permanently REMOVED. +* Gould support removed + +Support for the Gould PowerNode and NP1 has been removed. + * New features for SVR4 On SVR4 native platforms (such as Solaris), if you attach to a process @@ -124,9 +170,9 @@ try to find a command that does what you are looking for. A new machine oriented interface (MI) has been added to GDB. This interface is designed for debug environments running GDB as a separate -process. This is part of the long term libGDB project. See -gdb/mi/gdbmi.texinfo for further information. It can be enabled by -configuring with: +process. This is part of the long term libGDB project. See the +"GDB/MI" chapter of the GDB manual for further information. It can be +enabled by configuring with: .../configure --enable-gdbmi