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Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3]
- From: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:18:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA]: pending breakpoint support [1/3]
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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?
-- Jeff J.
2004-02-02 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Add information about new pending breakpoint support.
Index: NEWS
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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