tower@ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (07/16/89)
[ This software will soon be available for anonymous uucp on osu-cis and anonymous ftp on gatekeeper.dec.com. ] Forwarded-For: randy@ai.mit.edu (Randall Smith) Send bug reports to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu or gnUSENET newsgroup gnu.utils.bug (but not both; they are the same thing). The newest release of gdb is now availible on prep in the file gdb.tar-3.2.Z; the file dist-gdb.tar.Z is a symbolic link to this file. This file is 2.7Mb uncompressed (1.0Mb compressed). Diffs from version 3.1 are in the file gdb-3.1-3.2.diff.Z, and total 1.6Mb uncompressed (641K compressed). This release should be considered beta test. It includes both bug fixes and new features. Some of the new features are: Command line editing, history substitution, and command and symbol name completion with a <TAB>. This facility is very similar to the editing facility in Bash (GNU's Bourne Again Shell), and is documented in the gdb manual. This is enabled by default. Improved handling of floating point operations within gdb. Examples of remote stubs for use with the gdb remote debugging facilities. New ports to the Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 running 4.3 BSD, the Convex, and the Sequent Symmetry. Support for pretty printing structures (each element on a separate line) and not printing union elements of structures. These features are not enabled by default; enable them via "set prettyprint on" and "set unionprint off". Better C++ support. Somewhat faster startup. The problems with Gdb failing to understand the SunOS 4 type descriptions should be fixed; if it isn't, please submit a bug report. As usual, please report all bugs to bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu. -- Randy <randy@wheaties.ai.mit.edu>