svn commit: r49817 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Jan 10 02:07:39 UTC 2017

Author: bjk
Date: Tue Jan 10 02:07:38 2017
New Revision: 49817
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49817

Log:
  Add gdb entry from jhb

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml	Tue Jan 10 01:01:53 2017	(r49816)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml	Tue Jan 10 02:07:38 2017	(r49817)
@@ -388,4 +388,57 @@
       Microsoft
     </sponsor>
   </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 7.12.</p>
+
+      <p>7.12 includes additional fixes related to tracing
+	<tt>vfork()</tt>s.  Some of these fixes depend on changes to
+	<tt>ptrace()</tt> in the kernel to report a new ptrace stop when
+	the parent of a <tt>vfork()</tt> resumes.</p>
+
+      <p>Support for &os;/mips userland binaries has been committed
+	upstream.  These patches, along with support for debugging
+	&os;/mips kernels, should be added to the port soon.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Figure out why the powerpc <tt>kgdb</tt> targets are not
+	able to unwind the stack past the initial frame.</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for more platforms (arm, aarch64) to upstream
+	<tt>gdb</tt> for both userland and <tt>kgdb</tt>.</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for debugging powerpc vector registers.</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for <tt>$_siginfo</tt>.</task>
+
+      <task>Implement 'info proc' commands.</task>
+
+      <task>Implement 'info os' commands.</task>
+
+      <task>Debug <tt>gdb</tt> hangs related to the 'kill' command.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
