GDB 8.0 released!

From: Joel Brobecker Subject: GDB 8.0 released! Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 10:11:09 -0700 (PDT)

GDB 8.0 released! Release 8.0 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 19MiB c3d35cd949084be53b92cc1e03485f88 gdb-8.0.tar.xz 35MiB 9bb49d134916e73b2c01d01bf20363df gdb-8.0.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. Building this version of GDB now requires the following tools: - A C++-11 compiler (for instance, GCC 4.8 or later); - GNU make version 3.81 or later. GDB 8.0 brings the following fixes and improvements, including: * C++: Support for rvalue references * Python scripting enhancements: ** New functions to start, stop and access a running btrace recording. ** Rvalue reference support in gdb.Type. * GDB commands interpreter: ** User commands now accept an unlimited number of arguments. ** The "eval" command now expands user-defined arguments. * DWARF version 5 support (note that its .debug_names index is not supported yet). * GDB/MI enhancements: ** New -file-list-shared-libraries command to list the shared libraries in the program. ** New -target-flash-erase command, to erase flash memory. * Support for native FreeBSD/mips (mips*-*-freebsd) * Support for the following targets: ** Synopsys ARC (arc*-*-elf32) ** FreeBSD/mips (mips*-*-freebsd) * Miscellaneous enhancements: ** Command-line redirection now supported on MS-Windows hosts. ** Support for thread names on MS-Windows. ** Support for the PKU register on GNU/Linux. ** Support for Target descriptions on sparc32 and sparc64. ** New GDB/CLI command to erase flash memory ** rdrand and rdseed instructions record/replay support. Support for the following features have been removed: * Support for Java programs compiled with gcj * Support for the following configurations: ** FreeBSD/alpha (alpha*-*-freebsd*) ** GNU/kFreeBSD/alpha (alpha*-*-kfreebsd*-gnu) For a complete list and more details on each item, please see the gdb/NEWS file. -- Joel Brobecker

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