Changelog
gdb (7.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Imported Upstream version 7.10:
- Improved support for accessing shared libraries directly from
the target system when debugging remotely.
- Various Guile and Python scripting improvements, including (but not
limited to):
+ Support for auto-loading Python/Guile scripts contained
in a special section named `.debug_gdb_scripts'.
+ Support for writing a frame unwinder in Python.
- Support for record-replay and reverse debugging on Aarch64 Linux.
- GDB now has support for fork events on extended-remote Linux targets
(Linux kernels 2.5.60 and later).
- Support for DTrace USDT (Userland Static Defined Tracing) probes
on x86_64 GNU/Linux targets.
- Vector ABI support on S/390 GNU/Linux targets.
- GDB now reads the GDBHISTSIZE environment variable rather than
HISTSIZE to determine the size of GDB's command history.
- Support for setting the parity when connecting to the target
using a serial interface.
- It is now possible to limit the number of candidates to be
considered during completion.
- Support for Sun's version of the "stabs" debug file format
has been removed.
- Support for the following targets and native configurations has
been removed:
+ HP/PA running HP-UX (hppa*-*-hpux*)
+ Itanium running HP-UX (ia64-*-hpux*)
* d/control: make more explicit gdb-python2 is linked with python2.
(Closes: #761421)
* Drop libgdb-dev postinst. Not needed anymore.
* d/rules: configure with --with-system-zlib all targets
* sanitize: drop chm embedded files
* d/control.in,rules: attempt to manage python files (*.pyc) with cdbs
(Closes: #786384)
-- Hector Oron <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Sep 2015 04:04:33 +0200
