Linaro GDB 7.5 2012.12-1 - Changelog

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.5 2012.12-1:

December 15th, 2012

· Linaro GDB 7.5 2012.12-1 is identical to the FSF GDB 7.5.1 release, except for the change in version number and Linaro branding, since all Linaro GDB features were already accepted upstream and are included in the FSF release as-is. Future releases in the Linaro GDB 7.5 series may include additional ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements.

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.5 2012.12:

December 13th, 2012

· Linaro GDB 7.5 2012.12 is identical to the FSF GDB 7.5.1 release, except for the change in version number and Linaro branding, since all Linaro GDB features were already accepted upstream and are included in the FSF release as-is. Future releases in the Linaro GDB 7.5 series may include additional ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements.

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.4 2012.04:

April 13th, 2012

· gdbserver can now be compiled with Android's toolchain.
· Additional fixes from the GDB 7.4 branch, one of them being that it doesn't require makeinfo to build anymore.

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.3 2011.12:

December 8th, 2011

· Update to GDB 7.3.1 code base
· Support single-stepping atomic operations (LDREX/STREX sequences)

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.3 2011.10:

October 13th, 2011

· Support for disabling address space randomization in gdbserver.
· Fix for GDB crashes on 3.x kernels.
· Fix spurious "CRC mismatch" warnings when using "remote:" sysroot.

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.3 2011.09:

September 15th, 2011

· Support for hardware breakpoints and watchpoints in gdbserver

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.3 2011.08:

August 18th, 2011

· LP: #804401 [remote testsuite] Thread support
· LP: #804387 [remote testsuite] Shared library test problems
· LP: #804392 [remote testsuite] Rebuilt executables not copied
· LP: #804396 [remote testsuite] Spurious failures

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.2 2011.05:

May 20th, 2011

· LP: #615972 Neon registers missing in core files
· LP: #615978 Failure to software single-step into signal handler
· LP: #615996 gdb.cp/templates.exp failures

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.2 2011-03:

March 8th, 2011

· Hardware watchpoint support
· Backtracing while in the Linux kernel trampoline frame

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.2 2011.02:

February 9th, 2011

· Backtracing is more reliable through using the ARM specific exception tables for unwinding
· Better supports debugging functions compiled with GCC's -fstack-protector
· Multiple testsuite related fixes

What's new in Linaro GDB 7.2 2010-10:

October 13th, 2010

· Backtraces in Thumb-2 code are significantly improved
· Much better prologue and epilogue parsing
· Improved software watchpoint support
· Many test suite tidy-ups