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[Patch] NEWS: Mention MIPS/Linux hardware watchpoint support.
- From: David Daney <ddaney at caviumnetworks dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:00:59 -0700
- Subject: [Patch] NEWS: Mention MIPS/Linux hardware watchpoint support.
I propose the attached NEWS entry when and if the corresponding gdb
patches are committed.
OK to commit if the watchpoint patches are approved?
2009-04-20 David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
* NEWS: Mention MIPS/Linux hardware watchpoint support.
Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.307
diff -u -p -r1.307 NEWS
--- NEWS 19 Apr 2009 20:05:23 -0000 1.307
+++ NEWS 20 Apr 2009 18:56:52 -0000
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
*** Changes since GDB 6.8
+* GDB now supports hardware watchpoints on MIPS/Linux systems. This
+feature is available with a native GDB running on kernel version
+2.6.28 or later.
+
* GDB now has support for multi-byte and wide character sets on the
target. Strings whose character type is wchar_t, char16_t, or
char32_t are now correctly printed. GDB supports wide- and unicode-