From: Rod Armstrong (rod_at_san-jose.tt.slb.com)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 02:03:14 BST
The 3.34 version of UPS has finally been released. This has all the enhancements
and fixes of the beta4 version, plus refixes for debugging core files on
Solaris.
Getting the release
-------------------
The README and tar file are available from:
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ups-3.34.README
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ups-3.34.tar.gz
also at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/debuggers
The ftp.x.org site has precompiled binaries for Solaris 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7.
Note that these are NOT tar files, just compressed binaries - so simply unzip
them with "gzip -d" and rename to "ups".
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ups-3.34-solaris-2.5.gz
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ups-3.34-solaris-2.6.gz
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ups-3.34-solaris-2.7.gz
All the files are available at other mirror sites such as:
ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca/pub/mirror/x-contrib/utilities
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/X11/contrib/utilities
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/X11-contrib/utilities
(It's not yet available at unix.hensa.ac.uk, but should be later.)
Unpacking the distribution
--------------------------
You should have a compressed tar file called ups-3.34.tar.gz Change
directory to a disk with a six or more megabytes of free space and say:
gzip -dc ups-3.34.tar | tar xfp -
This will create a directory tree called ups-3.34. Change directory into it.
See the file README for build instructions.
Changes between 3.34 and 3.33
-----------------------------
o Russ Browne <russ_at_amc.com> provided fixes for
- breakpoints in static constructors
- compiler identification
- changes to g++ 2.8.1 symbol table
- using UPS on purify'd executables
- locating X application resources file
- display of 'register' storage class variables
- latest version of GNU C++ name demangler
- A Dump Memory item which can be used to show the contents of a
section of memory in bytes, shorts, longs and ascii.
o Ian Edwards <ian_at_concerto.demon.co.uk> provided
- building UPS through a 'configure' script
- changes for FreeBSD 3.x (a.out and ELF)
- fixes for Fortran on FreeBSD and Linux (test programs provided
by Michele Ferlauto <ferlauto_at_athena.polito.it>.
o Laszlo Ladanyi <ladanyi_at_watson.ibm.com> provided fixes for
- building under debian Linux 2.0 (kernel 2.0.35)
- building on Linux with glibc 2.1
- ELF symbol table processing on Linux
- compilation warnings
o Dibyendu Majumdar <dibyendu_at_mazumdar.demon.co.uk> provided
- lots of work on the standalone C interpreter included in the
UPS source code, documentation on it, tests etc. See the file
interpreter/docs/Interpreter.txt for full details.
o Will Renkel <rinky_at_lucky22.chi.il.us> provided the information
about building UPS on a Linux 'a.out' system (on the web site)
o Rod Armstrong <rod_at_san-jose.tt.slb.com> provided fixes for
- debugging core files under Solaris 2.6 and 2.7. For Solaris,
from limited testing, debugging target and cores is summarized below:
UPS Built Can debug targets from Can debug cores from
on Solaris 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.5 2.6 2.7
2.5 yes no no yes no no
2.6 yes yes no no yes no
2.7 yes yes yes no yes yes
- files created with a custom preprocessor inherit the
dereference semantics of the language of the output files:
e.g. if "file.c-custom" is processed to "file.c", then the
C semantics of "->" and "." will be used when clicking on
variables.
- Globals should show their correct type instead of sometimes
showing "int assumed". The bug was introduced in 3.33.
- The "Stop" button once again terminates a long symbol table search.
The bug was introduced in 3.33.1.
Rod Armstrong
rod_at_san-jose.tt.slb.com
2 Sep 1999
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