The following documentation concerns the enhancement issues for the GNUPro debugger tools. See Working with Cygnus Insight, the visual debugger for details regarding usage and features of Insight. The Function Browser window enables interaction with the Source Window for examining functions in source code using a dialog box for entering text, and for declaring functions as static or as regular expressions. A new Threads window is available for working with threads. Threads functionality is not available for all target operating systems.
Improvements make for faster variable display and update.
Introspect TM is a tracing facility that enables defining a trace experiment, starting and stopping trace data collection, and browsing the trace data that Insight collects. Tracepoint functionality is not available for all hosts and targets. The GNU debugger, GDB, is going through many changes in its emergence as version 5, available in a 1999 release. Some of the changes that have been made include the following features. Remote protocol can now use 64-bit addresses for memory.