From: Rod Armstrong (rod_at_san-jose.tt.slb.com)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 19:46:35 BST
The 3.35 release of UPS is now available. It is currently at
http://www.concerto.demon.co.uk/UPS/src/ups-3.35.tar.gz
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/debuggers/ups-3.35.tar.gz
It should be available at the other X11 sites within the next few days.
This version has gone through 13 beta versions in about a year, so I think
this will be a solid release that has many new and useful features
compared to 3.34. Many thanks to all the contributors, especially
Russ Browne and Ian Edwards.
This is from the CHANGES file:
List of consolidated changes between 3.35 and 3.34
--------------------------------------------------
o Changes from Russ Browne <russ_at_amc.com>
- Support for SC5 compiler:
Use the compiler supplied demangling library.
Recognize the bool type, now supported by this compiler.
Support for new implementation of virtual base classes used
by this compiler.
- Corrected look and feel for X clipboard operations:
Selected text does not vanish when the mouse button is released.
Instead, it stays selected until another clipboard selection
is made or the displayed text is changed by some user action.
Corrected paste from X clipboard to not allow pasting a new-line
in a text display that does not accept a new-line from the keyboard.
- Corrected display of source files with dos style line endings to not
display the \r at the end of each line.
- Added a keyboard history feature:
Most regions where UPS accepts data from the keyboard have
a history of recent entries. Recent entries can be accessed
either through the keyboard by typing Control-P or Control-N,
or through the mouse by pressing a button that brings up a menu
of recent entries for that item.
- Added a text-entry button.
This was primarily so that when entries are accessed through
the history menu one can complete the entry with the mouse
rather than shifting to the keyboard to type return or escape.
Clicking the middle mouse button on this region does a paste.
- Allow the user to remove the mousehole from the display through X resources.
If one uses a large font, the typing line area can get
rather small. By setting X resources one can retrieve the
space the mousehole takes up for the typing line instead.
- Fixed med3 keyboard routines to recognize the most useful control characters.
- display of 'long double' on SunOS 4.x
- implement raise/lower on "exec to here".
- fix to the symbol table problem reported by James Armstrong.
- stop 'Add Expresion' crash if no debugging info in the file
- fixes for lower/iconify on run
Notes from Russ Browne <russ_at_amc.com> :
Added X resource and command line option to split the output window
off as an independent top level X window.
Arrange that ups can raise itself to the foreground when the debugged
process breaks or dies. This behavior can be turned on by a
menu option under "Windows" (below) or by an X resource or a command
line option.
Renamed the old "Snapshot" button to "Windows" and added options to
raise sister ups windows to the foreground and to make ups raise itself
to the foreground when the debugged process breaks or dies.
Some more technical changes:
Added handling of N_ILDPAD stabs information in elf symbol tables.
Further tightening up of compiler identification while handling
the N_OPT stab.
Treatment of SC5 virtual base classes is working to my satisfaction.
I removed from the CHANGES file the sentence about this requiring
a lot more work.
In split window mode, the typing line '/' and '?' shortcuts always
search something on the screen where the command is typed.
Changes in symbol parsing to ensure the the va_type field in
a var_t object is never NULL. I reported earlier that I changed
TypeID to never return NULL; that proved to be a mistake. Instead,
I always check that the "rtype" being assigned to v->va_type is
not NULL.
Removed the broken mousehole from the source window when it is
split off a top level window.
Renamed the X resource to remove the mousehole completely to
"WantMousehole=no".
Added X resource and command line option to turn message logging
on by default.
Added wn_setdefault() and used it to set several X resources
from the command line. X resources so treated appear in the
command line as [-[no]option], so that an option turned on by an
X resource can be turned off by the command line, or vice-versa.
These options are:
-[no]split[:num] -[no]splitoutput[:num]
-[no]mousehole -[no]outwin -[no]logging -[no]raise_on_break
Added support for menu toggle items and used them to combine the
message logging on/off options into a single option and to add
the new raise-on-break option.
When the window containing the display area is iconified all UPS
windows are iconified. When that window is de-iconified all windows
iconfied with it are restored.
Gave UPS an icon. As I said earlier, I not a great artist.
If anyone wants to improve on my work, or replace the icon
completely, be my guest. The bitmap for the icon is in ups.c
Added X resources for the source and output window geometries.
These are Src.Geometry and Output.Geometry. Originally, these
were to be SrcGeometry and OutputGeometry, but the '.' fell out
of the existing get_xdef routine in wn_init.c and appears to be
consistent with X conventions for specifying a resource specific
to an individual window, button, or the like. In the manual page
I spelled this out as "Ups.Src.Geometry" because I felt readers
might not understand that the "Ups." still goes in front of the
resource name.
o Changes from Rod Armstrong <rod_at_san-jose.tt.slb.com>
- splitting the ups window into two.
- X resources to control vertical positioning of the items in the
display window.
- fix for static globals with Centerline and Purify on Solaris.
- fix for scroll delay code
- revived the code for debugging dynamically loaded libraries.
This was commented out in 3.35 beta6 because it caused a step
in C++ code to be very slow. The hit should happen now only
when the dynamic linker does a load, open or close of a
dynamic library, or when the user rescans the init file.
Ricardo Telichevesky <ricardo_at_teli.org> reports this works
on Linux Red Hat 6.2 as well as Solaris.
- related to the above, rescanning the init file now works again.
- for a display window search, optimized the coloring by turning
it on and off only when necessary. This reduced the setup time
for a search from minutes, for a display window of thousands of
lines, to millisecs.
- fixed a bug that caused most steps to behave like nexts in Sun
shared libraries, especially for C++ code.
- added support for displaying Static members of a class for
Centerline compiled code.
- added /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults to the search path for X resources.
o Changes from Ian Edwards <ian_at_concerto,demon.co.uk>
- support of multiple X screens in libx11wn.
- various FreeBSD and Linux bugs.
- 'C' library calls in interpreted code at breakpoints on Linux
and FreeBSD 3.x,4.x.
- fixes for lower/iconify on run
- application defaults file may be in /usr/X11R6/lib/...
- stuff to allow a FreeBSD package/port of ups to be built
- libx11wn builds in its directory and not the X11 subdirectory
- stuff to allow a Linux RPM of ups to be built
o Changes from Panagiotis Tsirigotis <pgttso_at_best.com>
- fix for UPS crash when using a g++ that generates vtable thunks
for virtual function dispatch.
o Changes from Peter Collinson <pc_at_hillside.co.uk>
- control speed of scrolling of text in windows with Ups.ScrollDelay
o Bob Carragher <bob_at_fla.fujitsu.com> and
Rick Mallett <rmallett_at_ccs.carleton.ca> tested the 'split windows'
code on dual-monitor systems.
o Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes_at_ENG.Auburn.EDU> provided fixes for
- Makefile errors.
o Dibyendu Majumdar <dibyendu_at_mazumdar.demon.co.uk> provided fixes for
- memory leaks in the interpreter code.
- make C interpreter understand class::method so can be used in
interpreted breakpoint code.
o Thanks to Laszlo Ladanyi <ladanyi_at_us.ibm.com> for pointing out
- UPS was using its own 'strstr()' when most C libraries now have one,
- 'gets()' should be avoided
- not necessary to remove "-O2" when building using 'gcc'
Rod Armstrong
rod_at_san-jose.tt.slb.com
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