What's new in KDbg 2.5.5
Feb 23, 2015
- Bug fixes:
- A crash when the hotkey settings are changed was fixed.
- The animation button was regenerated to avoid a crash with modern Qt. Thanks to Armin Felder for the initial fix.
- Pretty-printers and GDB Python extensions were disabled, because they would interfere with the output parser.
- Recent GDBs do not terminate on receipt of SIGTERM, keeping KDbg running for 20 seconds. This was fixed.
New in KDbg 2.5.4 (Jan 24, 2014)
- Bug fixes
- Source file names with international characters are handled better.
- When an executable is loaded, GDBs of different vintage print different text, some of which were treated as error text incorrectly, leading to failed debugging sessions. More of these texts are now ignored.
- Variables pointing to some global variable lacked the ability to be expanded with recent GDBs.
- Parsing of string values residing in global variables was fixed.
New in KDbg 2.5.3 (Apr 4, 2013)
- GDB's breakpoint list is now parsed correctly in more cases.
- Communication with a localized GDB works now.
- A crash in the memory display has been fixed.
- The Russian and Croatian translations have been updated.
New in KDbg 2.5.2 (Aug 23, 2012)
- Support for GDB 7.5 has been added.
- More of GDB's output is now recognized in some corner cases.
New in KDbg 2.5.1 (Oct 28, 2011)
- Minor feature enhancements:
- .hpp files undergo syntax highlighting.
- Keys j and k can be used to move the cursor position in the source code.
- Bug fixes:
- Cooperation with newer GDB (7.2 and 7.3) is improved:
- wchar_t strings as printed by GDB 7.2 are recognized;
- the thread list was missing with GDB 7.3;
- program exit was not detected (also GDB 7.3).
- Enum values in anonymous namespaces are now recognized.
New in KDbg 2.5.0 (Apr 4, 2011)
- A number of icons were exchanged with Oxygen icons. These are not part of KDbg's source code.
- Session state per debugged program is now stored in a section in $KDEHOME rather than in a .kdbgrc file in the program's directory. This allows to debug programs that are located in unwritable directories. But this also means that earlier session information is disregarded.
- More accurate parsing of GDB responses of various commands fixed bugs in certain areas, in particular, temporary breakpoints, register values, truncated struct values, disassembly (again).
- "View Code" from the breakpoint list can open the source code in more cases.
New in KDbg 2.2.2 (Jun 10, 2010)
- Bug fix: An error message was shown instead of assembler code when gdb 7.1 was used.
New in KDbg 2.2.1 (Mar 29, 2010)
- Compilation with newer glibc failed.
- A crash could occur when the variable window was updated.
- A crash when command line switch -a was used together with a non-existing executable name.
- Syntax highlighting was applied to all files, not just C/C++.
- The display was incorrect when a file was reloaded that had disassembly lines visible.
New in KDbg 2.2.0 (Sep 5, 2009)
- Features:
- Source code windows have now a tab attached, which makes switching source files much easier.
- Source code windows now show line numbers at the left.
- There are now "Find Next" and "Find Previous" commands with shortcuts F3 and Shift+F3.
- Improved support of template types in the type tables (which are used to show structure members next to a structure variable). Notably, the number of elements in STL and Qt collection classes are shown.
- Arguments for the debugged program can be passed on KDbg's command line.
- Bug fixes:
- An incorrect terminal command string setting could crash KDbg if it contained format specifiers other than exactly one '%s'.
- The format specifier in the memory dump window was not correctly preserved when the expression is changed.
- Setting a conditional breakpoint could crash KDbg.
- Using Attach on systems that use the simplified Attach to Process dialog could crash KDbg.
New in KDbg 2.1.1 (Dec 20, 2008)
- Fixed a crash when the disassemble button was clicked when no program was loaded.