Add reminders for next release.

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Fri Feb 19 18:36:55 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* NEWS: Add reminders for next release.
Fri Feb 19 10:01:39 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
* mipsread.c (parse_lines): Correct check for files compiled with

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What has changed since GDB-3.5?
(Organized release by release)
*** Changes in GDB-4.9:
(This is a prototype to remind us of things that should be announced
in the next release...)
H8/300 simulator
H8/500 simulator (probably by the next release)
Z8000 family simulator
Cross-debugging to GO32 targets is supported. It requires a custom
version of the i386-stub.c module which is integrated with the
GO32 memory extender. Msg follows:
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 02:34:20 EST
From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@cygnus.com>
Message-Id: <9302160734.AA09302@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>
To: gnu@cygnus.com
Cc: ian@cygnus.com, gnu@cygnus.com, gumby@cygnus.com, gdb@cygnus.com
In-Reply-To: gnu@cygnus.com's message of Mon, 15 Feb 93 22:30:09 -0800 <9302160630.AA00786@cygnus.com>
Subject: GO32 debugging in devo/gdb
SUB: GO32 debugging in devo/gdb
SUM: <gnu>, gnu->eichin, ian, gnu, gumby, gdb
My impression is that devo/gdb supports remote debugging of GO32 programs.
Is this true?
Yes. I think that even the 4.7 release had everything needed.
What does a user have to have in the GO32 environment in order to do this?
(My guess: our custom-modified GO32. Did we send the changes back to
DJ and did they ever get integrated into the standard GO32?)
I asked DJ if he wanted the changes; at the time, he was very busy
having a daughter. He's back on the net now, I'll give him another
try. My changes are to GO32 1.07 and the entire source (and an
executable) are checked in to cvs; the current GO32 is 1.08, I haven't
tried updating the changes.
What does a user have to actually do in GO32 in order for this to work?
E.g. there seems to be no user-level documentation for this feature.
GO32 includes "go32.exe" and "debug32.exe"; my version is
"dser32.exe". With a serial link on com1 to the host, use the mode
command on the target to set the baud rate, then "dser32 a.out" and
start up gdb (configured -target go32), target remote /dev/ttya.
Shoudl just work from there.
I'm wondering if we can announce this as part of what's supported in
gdb-4.8.
The hard part is the extender itself -- it needs to be built with a
native 16-bit compiler (such as Turbo C with Turbo Assembler -- about
$300 in software, which I do own -- and the assembly code uses enough
high level features (like structs) that it isn't portable to other
assemblers.) We have no way to build it with any free tools. I think
we can ship (or at least make available) the executable for the DOS
side, I don't think Turbo C has any runtime restrictions.
_Mark_
*** Changes in GDB-4.8:
* HP Precision Architecture supported