[Cgdb-announce] CGDB 0.5.1 released

[Bob R. <bo...@br...>]

CGDB 0.5.1 Released
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Downloading:

    Go to http://cgdb.sourceforge.net/download.shtml for download
    link and instructions.

This version is a major bug fix version. There have been several crash's
fixed.

This new version contains the following changes:

   * fixed crash when user tries to set a breakpoint on a file that's not
   a source file. This would happen if you typed ':help' to get into the
   help, and then tried to set a breakpoint using the spacebar.

   * obsolete the b and f commands. These were responsible for moving between
   the previous and the next source file. They made CGDB unstable and I don't
   think they were in the spirit of a vi/vim clone.

   * fixed an annoying bug that appeared while searching for a string. If you
   canceled the source view regex search by hitting ESC, 2 bad things would happen.
   You would end up on the line that you cancelled at
   The currently displayed line would stay the line you can cancelled at, even when
   you start moving around again.

   * reworked the signal handling code when GDB dies. Now CGDB handles the SIGCHLD
   and passes the signal notification to TGDB. This fixes a race condition that
   occurred, even though the race condition appeared to be harmless.

   * Several memory runtime fixes found thanks to valgrind. This could potentially
   fix crash's that I just never ran into.

   * Fix a bug in the c/c++ syntax highlighter. If a file had a dos file format
   and the C++ style comment // was used, then the file displayed would be
   completly unreadable. This is because the trailing '\r' would get grouped with
   the comment.

   * Fix CGDB command line interface. If the user invoked CGDB like this,
   'cgdb --args ./main one two three', then CGDB would hang or crash. This
   was because it use to add extra command line options to GDB on the end.
   Now it prepends the options to GDB, so that the --args command line
   can still be honored.

   * Added new logger interface. This traps all errors to a file or
   a file descriptor. There is now a mechanism to write warnings and
   errors to a file for inspection by the user.

   * Removed depricated libinput from the various subdirectory. It has been
   replaced by libkui.

   * Added 'set asr' or autosourcereload option to CGDB. It is off by default.
   It is capable of reloading a source file when CGDB detects that a file has
   been modified. To turn this feature on do ':set asr'.

   * The :edit [:e] colon command has been implemented. It forces CGDB to
   reload the current file in the source viewer.

Enjoy,
The CGDB Team