svn commit: r49025 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Jul 1 17:52:30 UTC 2016

Author: dru
Date: Fri Jul  1 17:52:29 2016
New Revision: 49025
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49025

Log:
  Add GDB status report submitted by jhb at FreeBSD.org.
  While here, add a line between authors.
  
  Reviewed by: wblock at ixsystems.com
  Sponsored by: iXsystems

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml	Fri Jul  1 14:29:08 2016	(r49024)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml	Fri Jul  1 17:52:29 2016	(r49025)
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@
 	</name>
 	<email>kib at FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
+
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Ed</given>
@@ -451,4 +452,53 @@
 	FreeBSD.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='bin'>
+    <title>Updates to GDB</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>John</given>
+	  <common>Baldwin</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>jhb at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Luca</given>
+	  <common>Pizzamiglio</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>luca.pizzamiglio at gmail.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The port has been updated to GDB 7.11.1.</p>
+
+      <p>Support for system call catchpoints has been committed
+	upstream.  Support for examining ELF auxiliary vector data via
+	<tt>info auxv</tt> has been committed upstream.  Both features
+	will be included in GDB 7.12.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Figure out why the <tt>powerpc kgdb</tt> targets are not
+	able to unwind the stack past the initial frame.</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for more platforms, such as <tt>arm</tt>,
+	<tt>mips</tt>, and <tt>aarch64</tt>, to upstream gdb for both
+	userland and kgdb.</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for debugging <tt>powerpc</tt> vector
+	registers.</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for <tt>$_siginfo</tt>.</task>
+
+      <task>Implement <tt>info proc</tt> commands.</task>
+
+      <task>Implement <tt>info os</tt> commands.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
