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authorKoen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>2018-08-01 13:39:03 +0200
committerKoen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>2018-08-01 16:12:53 +0200
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toolchain/gdb: bump to 8.1.1
GDB 8.1.1 brings the following fixes and enhancements over GDB 8.1: * PR gdb/22824 (misleading description of new rbreak Python function in GDB 8.1 NEWS file) * PR gdb/22849 (ctrl-c doesn't work in extended-remote) * PR gdb/22907 ([Regression] gdbserver doesn't work with filename-only binaries) * PR gdb/23028 (inconsistent disassemble of vcvtpd2dq) * PR gdb/23053 (Fix -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG gdb-add-index regression) * PR gdb/23127 ([AArch64] GDB cannot be used for debugging software that uses high Virtual Addresses) * PR server/23158 (gdbserver no longer functional on Windows) * PR breakpoints/23210 ([8.1/8.2 Regression] Bogus Breakpoint address adjusted from 0xf7fe7dd3 to 0xfffffffff7fe7dd3) 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]); Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
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