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[ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 8.1 released!

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:30:49 +0400 (+04)

Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 8.1 released!

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GDB 8.1 released! Release 8.1 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous FTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal 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. You can download GDB from the GNU FTP server in the directory: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb The vital stats: Size md5sum Name 20MiB f46487561f9a16916a8102316f7fd105 gdb-8.1.tar.xz 36MiB 0c85ecbb43569ec43b1c9230622e84ab gdb-8.1.tar.gz There is a web page for GDB at: http://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 8.1 includes the following changes and enhancements: * Breakpoints on C++ functions are now set on all scopes by default ("wild" matching); * Support for inserting breakpoints on functions marked with C++ ABI tags; * Target floating-point arithmetic emulation during expression evaluation (requires MPFR 3.1 or later); * Various Python Scripting enhancements; * Improved Rust support; in particular, Trait objects can now be inspected when debugging Rust code; * GDB no longer makes assumptions about the type of symbols without debugging information to avoid producing erroneous and often confusing results; * The 'enable' and 'disable' commands now accept a range of breakpoint locations; * New 'starti' command to start the program at the first instruction; * New 'rbreak' command to insert a number of breakpoints via a regular expression pattern (requires Python); * The 'ptype' command now supports printing the offset and size of the fields in a struct; * The 'gcore' command now supports dumping all the memory mappings ('-a' command-line option); * New shortcuts for TUI Single-Key mode: 'i' for stepi, and 'o' for nexti; * GDBserver enhancements: ** Support for transmitting environment variables to GDBserver; ** Support for starting inferior processes with a specified initial working directory; ** On Unix systems, support for globbing expansion and variable substitution of inferior command-line arguments; * Various completion enhancements; * The command used to compile and inject code with the 'compile' command is now configurable; * New '--readnever' command-line option to speed the GDB startup when debugging information is not needed; * Support for the following new native configurations: ** FreeBSD/aarch64 (aarch64*-*-freebsd*); ** FreeBSD/arm (arm*-*-freebsd*); * Support for the following new targets: ** FreeBSD/aarch64 (aarch64*-*-freebsd*); ** FreeBSD/arm (arm*-*-freebsd*); ** OpenRISC ELF (or1k*-*-elf) * Removed support for the following targets and native configurations: ** Solaris2/x86 (i?86-*-solaris2.[0-9]); ** Solaris2/sparc (sparc*-*-solaris2.[0-9]); 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-8.1-release -- Joel Brobecker