diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 46b1dc60ce..e60b402c11 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2012-02-24 Luis Machado + + * NEWS: Mention target-side conditional breakpoint support, + new condition-evaluation breakpoint subcommand and remote + packet extensions. + 2012-02-24 Luis Machado * breakpoint.c (bp_location_compare): Sort by pspace before sorting by diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index 6ed8fa7b22..090a065fe2 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -56,6 +56,28 @@ Renesas RL78 rl78-*-elf +* GDBserver supports evaluation of breakpoint conditions. When + support is advertised by GDBserver, GDB may be told to send the + breakpoint conditions in bytecode form to GDBserver. GDBserver + will only report the breakpoint trigger to GDB when its condition + evaluates to true. + +* New options + +set breakpoint condition-evaluation +show breakpoint condition-evaluation + Controls whether breakpoint conditions are evaluated by GDB ("gdb") or by + GDBserver ("target"). + This option can improve debugger efficiency depending on the speed of the + target. + +* New remote packets + + The z0/z1 breakpoint insertion packets have been extended to carry + a list of conditional expressions over to the remote stub depending on the + condition evaluation mode. The use of this extension can be controlled + via the "set remote conditional-breakpoints-packet" command. + *** Changes in GDB 7.4 * GDB now handles ambiguous linespecs more consistently; the existing