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authorLuis Machado <luisgpm@br.ibm.com>2012-02-24 15:04:58 +0000
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2012-02-24 Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
* NEWS: Mention target-side conditional breakpoint support, new condition-evaluation breakpoint subcommand and remote packet extensions.
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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
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