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[RFA/NEWS] Document --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:38:20 -0700
- Subject: [RFA/NEWS] Document --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck
Hello,
I just checked in a patch that expands the list of configure options
for GDB, and it's only after pushing the patch that I realized that
a NEWS entry should probably be added. Here it is.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Document new --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck
configure options.
---
gdb/NEWS | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 4da886c..a590bee 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
*** Changes since GDB 7.5
+* New configure options
+
+--enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck
+ By default, development versions are built with -lmcheck on hosts
+ that support it, in order to help track memory corruption issues.
+ Release versions, on the other hand, are built without -lmcheck
+ by default. The --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck configure
+ options allow the user to override that default.
+
* New commands (for set/show, see "New options" below)
maint info bfds
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1.7.1