From dfbb701a949941aa1bcd3370748448236b51eb47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 23:24:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Update for 4.17 release.
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++
gdb/NEWS | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 8d75ca305da..44a64673f21 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Mar 28 15:19:48 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Update for 4.17 release.
+
Thu Mar 26 22:29:28 1998 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com>
* tracepoint.c (trace_status_command): Recognize a boolean return
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 7647fe8d785..abbb6ff00ba 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -1,15 +1,120 @@
What has changed in GDB?
(Organized release by release)
-*** Changes since GDB-4.16:
+*** Changes in GDB-4.17:
* New native configurations
-Alpha Linux alpha-*-linux*
+Alpha Linux alpha*-*-linux*
+Unixware 2.x i[3456]86-unixware2*
+Irix 6.x mips*-sgi-irix6*
+PowerPC Linux powerpc-*-linux*
+PowerPC Solaris powerpcle-*-solaris*
+Sparc Linux sparc-*-linux*
* New targets
+Argonaut Risc Chip (ARC) arc-*-*
+Hitachi H8/300S h8300*-*-*
+Matsushita MN10200 w/simulator mn10200-*-*
+Matsushita MN10300 w/simulator mn10300-*-*
+MIPS NEC VR4100 mips64*vr4100*{,el}-*-elf*
+MIPS NEC VR5000 mips64*vr5000*{,el}-*-elf*
+MIPS Toshiba TX39 mips64*tx39*{,el}-*-elf*
+Mitsubishi D10V w/simulator d10v-*-*
+Mitsubishi M32R/D w/simulator m32r-*-elf*
+Tsqware Sparclet sparclet-*-*
+NEC V850 w/simulator v850-*-*
+
+* New debugging protocols
+
+ARM with RDI protocol arm*-*-*
M68K with dBUG monitor m68*-*-{aout,coff,elf}
+DDB and LSI variants of PMON protocol mips*-*-*
+PowerPC with DINK32 monitor powerpc{,le}-*-eabi
+PowerPC with SDS protocol powerpc{,le}-*-eabi
+Macraigor OCD (Wiggler) devices powerpc{,le}-*-eabi
+
+* DWARF 2
+
+All configurations can now understand and use the DWARF 2 debugging
+format. The choice is automatic, if the symbol file contains DWARF 2
+information.
+
+* Java frontend
+
+GDB now includes basic Java language support. This support is
+only useful with Java compilers that produce native machine code.
+
+* solib-absolute-prefix and solib-search-path
+
+For SunOS and SVR4 shared libraries, you may now set the prefix for
+loading absolute shared library symbol files, and the search path for
+locating non-absolute shared library symbol files.
+
+* Live range splitting
+
+GDB can now effectively debug code for which GCC has performed live
+range splitting as part of its optimization. See gdb/doc/LRS for
+more details on the expected format of the stabs information.
+
+* Hurd support
+
+GDB's support for the GNU Hurd, including thread debugging, has been
+updated to work with current versions of the Hurd.
+
+* ARM Thumb support
+
+GDB's ARM target configuration now handles the ARM7T (Thumb) 16-bit
+instruction set. ARM GDB automatically detects when Thumb
+instructions are in use, and adjusts disassembly and backtracing
+accordingly.
+
+* MIPS16 support
+
+GDB's MIPS target configurations now handle the MIP16 16-bit
+instruction set.
+
+* Overlay support
+
+GDB now includes support for overlays; if an executable has been
+linked such that multiple sections are based at the same address, GDB
+will decide which section to use for symbolic info. You can choose to
+control the decision manually, using overlay commands, or implement
+additional target-side support and use "overlay load-target" to bring
+in the overlay mapping. Do "help overlay" for more detail.
+
+* info symbol
+
+The command "info symbol <address>" displays information about
+the symbol at the specified address.
+
+* Trace support
+
+The standard remote protocol now includes an extension that allows
+asynchronous collection and display of trace data. This requires
+extensive support in the target-side debugging stub. Tracing mode
+includes a new interaction mode in GDB and new commands: see the
+file tracepoint.c for more details.
+
+* MIPS simulator
+
+Configurations for embedded MIPS now include a simulator contributed
+by Cygnus Solutions. The simulator supports the instruction sets
+of most MIPS variants.
+
+* Sparc simulator
+
+Sparc configurations may now include the ERC32 simulator contributed
+by the European Space Agency. The simulator is not built into
+Sparc targets by default; configure with --enable-sim to include it.
+
+* set architecture
+
+For target configurations that may include multiple variants of a
+basic architecture (such as MIPS and SH), you may now set the
+architecture explicitly. "set arch" sets, "info arch" lists
+the possible architectures.
*** Changes in GDB-4.16: