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Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3]
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:21:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3]
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 05:18:26PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:12:17PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Patch checked in. I have included the final patch here with the
> >>reworded message.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I suspect this deserves a NEWS entry. Mind taking care of that?
> >
> >
> Ok, how about the accompanying patch?
OK. And here I had no idea you were working on gcj support...
>
> -- Jeff J.
>
> 2004-02-02 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
>
> * NEWS: Add information about new pending breakpoint support.
>
>
> Index: NEWS
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
> retrieving revision 1.134
> diff -u -r1.134 NEWS
> --- NEWS 22 Jan 2004 23:18:03 -0000 1.134
> +++ NEWS 2 Feb 2004 22:16:45 -0000
> @@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
>
> *** Changes since GDB 6.0:
>
> +* Pending breakpoint support
> +
> +Support has been added to allow specifying breakpoints in shared libraries
> +that have not yet been loaded. If a breakpoint location cannot be found,
> +you are queried to see if you wish to make the breakpoint pending on a
> +future shared-library load. If and when the breakpoint symbol is resolved,
> +the pending breakpoint is removed as one or more regular breakpoints are
> +created. Pending breakpoints are very useful for gcj java debugging.
> +
> * Removed --with-mmalloc
>
> Support for the mmalloc memory manager has been removed, as it
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer