GDB 8.2 released!

From: Joel Brobecker Subject: GDB 8.2 released! Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 11:14:51 +0200 (CEST)

GDB 8.2 released! Release 8.2 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, 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 20MiB b5a49dbff00d9a87fbe114d14b3101c0 gdb-8.2.tar.xz 36MiB 0783c6d86775c5aff06cccc8a3d7cad8 gdb-8.2.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 8.2 includes the following changes and enhancements: * Support for the following target has been added: RiscV ELF riscv*-*-elf * Support for following targets and native configurations has been removed: m88k running OpenBSD m88*-*-openbsd* SH-5/SH64 ELF sh64-*-elf*, SH-5/SH64 support in sh* SH-5/SH64 running GNU/Linux SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-linux* SH-5/SH64 running OpenBSD SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-openbsd* * Various Python API enhancements * Aarch64/Linux enhancements: ** SVE support. ** Hardware watchpoints improvements for entities stored at unaligned addresses. * New "c" response to disable the pager for the rest of the current command. * C expressions can now use _Alignof, and C++ expressions can now use alignof. * Improved flexibility for loading symbol files. * The 'info proc' command nows works on running processes on FreeBSD systems as well as core files created on FreeBSD systems. * A new --enable-codesign=CERT configure option to automatically codesign GDB after build (useful on MacOS X). 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-8.2-release -- Joel Brobecker

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