Mark J. Wielaard

Wow, just wow! Look at all those new features in the just released GNU Debugger 7.0:

• Python scripting support
• Reverse debugging, Process record and replay
• Non-stop debugging
• Multi-architecture debugging
• Multi-inferior, multi-process debugging
• GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation
• Tracepoints may now be conditional
• Multi-byte and wide character set support
• New /r and /m modifiers for the “disassemble” command
• Automatic retrieval of shared library files from remote targets
• Inlined functions are now supported
• New remote protocal packets
• GDB is now able to read compressed debug sections
• Thread switching is now supported on Tru64
• Ada task switching is now supported
• New features in gdbserver, the GDB remote stub
• New command to stop execution when a system call is made

Of course no surprises if you have been following Nick Clifton’s GNU Toolchain Updates and some of these features (python scripting, better C++ support and disassemble /m are my personal favourites) have been backported to the Fedora GDB packages already. But it is really nice to see them all together now in a fresh GDB release. Congrats to the GDB hackers. This is really a must have update!