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diff --git a/dwarfdump/NEWS b/dwarfdump/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed4428b --- /dev/null +++ b/dwarfdump/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,206 @@ +December 13, 2011 + Now prints missing line table column number as 0 (now + matching the DWARF spec), the previous + practice of printing -1 was always wrong. + And prints the DWARF3/4 new line table fields (when present). +October 29, 2011 + Added support for printing .debug_types (type unit) data. +October 26, 2011 + Added new features to Makefile.in and documented in README + how to build dwarfdump with headers or libraries in + non-standard places. +October 23, 2011 + By default the various places with string option values + and file paths all use URI transformation on input and + if the transformation does anything at all dwarfdump reports + the input and transformed strings. This makes it easy + to deal with strings and expressions and file paths + that are difficult to express in a shell (or that getopt + mangles). Options -q and -U give you control over this process. +October 07, 2011 + The -x abi=mips frame register abi in dwarfdump.conf is now + usable with modern MIPS objects as well as old IRIX objects. + There are other mips-* frame register setups described + in dwarfdump.conf for anyone testing that nothing new has + been added that conflicts with old IRIX/MIPS frame generation. +June 04, 2011 + Error checking is now distinct from section printing, making + error checking (the -k options) much easier to work with on + large objects. + So compiler-created errors can be found, the error reporting + now prints context information. +March 29, 2011 + Added many new correctness tests. Changed the format of + various items (line data prints in a more compact form, numbers + are more uniformly hexadecimal fixed length where that makes sense). + All the source files are uniformly indented to a multiple of 4 + characters and all intent-tabs in the source have been removed. + Major logic changes involved changing error-reporting to be + more detailed and adding new tests for incorrect DWARF. + Now reports error summary by the compiler name, not just overall. +January 26, 2010 + Changed the default frame-data register names from MIPS to + a generic set of registers. + Try '-x abi=mips' to get the traditional old MIPS register + naming. +June 22, 2009 + Added the -S option to dwarfdump. +June 10, 2009 + Moved the gennames.c code to libdwarf. +May 4, 2009 + Replaced awk source-generation of certain functions + with new gennames.c code. + Now we can print an object with an address_size that + varies by compilation unit. +April 4, 2009 + Corrected aspects of the frame-printing by ensuring we pass + all the information libdwarf needs for fully consistent behavior. + Three newly defined libdwarf calls calls made to ensure + that better behavior (specifically having dwarfdump consistently + recognize when registers are the cfa, undefined-value or same-value + pseudo registers). Updated dwarfdump.conf to set these same + things consistently. +Mar 22, 2009 + The -f and -F flags no longer also imply -i (it just + did not make sense to tie them (cannot recall why + it might have been tied before). +Mar 20, 2009 + Moved print_* functions from print_sections.c to individual + source files. Hopefully making the code a bit easier + to read. +Feb 16, 2009 + Added the -C option. It is a sort of 'pedantic' option + as it turns on warnings about certain commonly used + non-standard tag->tag and tag->attr relationships. + Added the tag_attr_ext.list tag_tree_ext.list files which + define the 'common use' extensions. +Feb 14, 2009 + Added configure option --enable-nonstandardprintf + which makes it easy to get printf of Dwarf_Unsigned (etc) + types correct even for non-standard compilers. +December 30, 2008 + Now we print the .debug_ranges section (with -N) + and the data for DW_AT_ranges (with -i). +December 8, 2008 + The -M option now causes printing of FORM details. + And -v adds details about abbreviation 'indexes' into + an abbreviation table (.debug_abbrev) + providing more detail for folks debugging or + improving their understanding of DWARF data. +April 9, 2008 + Added -H <num> to limit the number of compilation-units/FDEs + dwarfdump prints in one run. Added -n to eliminate function-name + printing in .debug_frame output (with a large-enough debug_info + section function-name printing is too slow). The function name + printing will be fixed in another release. +December 8, 2007 + Had to add an ugly configure conditional as libelf has + unconditional use of off64_t in recent libelf.h +July 3, 2007 + Now with -v dwarf expression blocks in frame operations + are printed expanded out. +July 2, 2007 + Added a new abi -x abi=general usable for any cpu with + up to 1000 registers. +May 7, 2007 + Sun Microsystems contributes new dwarf.h extensions and a new -G option + to dwarfdump -i (so one can see the 'global' offset to DIEs). + Thanks to Chris Quenelle of Sun. +April 17, 2006 + New -x name=<conf file> -x abi=<abiname> and configuration file + enable sensible printing of a wide range of .debug_frame eh_frame + correctly without recompiling dwarfdump or touching libdwarf.h or + dwarf.h. +March 29, 2005 + Now handles DWARF3. For non-MIPS objects, the list of register + names in print_sections.c is not appropriate, #define + DWARFDUMP_TURN_OFF_MIPS_REG_NAMES to turn off the MIPS names. +December 1, 2005 + Added new DWARF3 TAGs and ATtributes to the -k lists, + clarified the -k reporting, and made the build more robust + in the face of errors in the *.list relationship-spec-files. + +August 1, 2005 + Now print_die.c deals with long loclists without a coredump. + Added esb.h esb.c (and testesb.c for testing) to encapsulate + getting space for possibly-long strings. + Now print_die.c uses snprintf() not sprintf (hopefully this + will not inconvenience anyone, snprintf() has been available + on most systems for years now). + Altered print of location lists a little bit - for better appearance. + +July 15, 2005 + Now completely frees all allocated memory. Various + routines were not calling dealloc() code and + new libdwarf dealloc routines are now used where those + are needed. + + Now prints DWARF3 .debug_pubtypes section (with -a or -y). + The .debug_pubtypes section and SGI-specific .debug_typenames + are equvalent so they are treated alike. + +Mar 21, 2005 + The -f flag now prints only .debug_frame data. The .eh_frame section + (GNU exceptions data) now prints with -F (not -a). + Printing gcc 3.3 or 3.4 .eh_frame with zR augmentation + does not work at this time, so do not use -F + to print such an object. + The line section print now prints a CU-DIE offset for each such DIEs + line information. This makes it much easier to correctly associate + -l (or -v -l) output with -v -v -l when debugging a faulty + linetable in an executable. + With -v -v -l (two -v) the output of line info continues to be a + completely different format than zero or one -v, the two-v + form showing the detailed line table opcodes. + With g++ 3.3.3 one sees bad line addresses at times as the + DW_LNE_set_address address for header files do not always + get their relocations applied. I am told this is fixed in 3.4.x. + + +Mar 18, 2005 + In correcting printing of macro information the format + of the macro (-m) output has changed substantially. + Much more complete now. Still could use enhancement. + +Oct 28, 2004 + Updated contact address in copyright: SGI moved 1/4 mile + to a new address: 1500 Crittenden Lane. + +Oct 02, 2003 + Now fully supports .debug_loc section. + +June 14, 2001 + Now calling a new function dwarf_get_arange_cu_header_offset() + in libdwarf and printing the returned cu header offset for + aranges entries. Making it easier to track down internal + errors in the dwarf2 data. Also added small other + consistency checks, printing a message and exit()ing on + error. + +April 14, 2000 + The libdwarf copyright has changed to + version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License. + Anyone holding a version of libdwarf that was published + before this new copyright + is allowed to use + the copyright published in that earlier libdwarf source + on the earlier source + or to use + this new copyright on the earlier source, + at their option. + +July 21, 1999 + Added gnu extensions to the frame information printer + and handling for egcs eh_frame printing. + libdwarf changes mean this now can print little-endian + object dwarf on a big-endian system and vice-versa. + +December, 1998 + added dwarfdump to the dwarf public source distribution. + +June, 1994 + libdwarf consumer interface changed completely so updated to match. + +May, 1993 + Initial version of dwarfdump for dwarf version 2 + written at sgi. |