[gtkada] [ANNOUNCE] Release 1.2.4 of the GNU Visual Debugger

[Arnaud Charlet]

We are pleased to announce the availability of GVD 1.2.4, the GNU Visual
Debugger, a general purpose graphical debugger front-end licensed
under the GNU General Public License.

Besides providing all the features of other debugger GUIs, GVD
includes advanced data display and visualization capabilities.
Furthermore, GVD allows the debugging of multi-process/multi-threaded
applications in the same debugging session. GVD works with native as
well as cross debuggers and can handle several languages in the same
debugging session and the same application. Currently Ada, C and C++
are supported.

GVD can run on a host different from the machine where the debugger
is running and provides friendly support for cross-debuggers (VxWorks,
Lynx, etc.). For instance, you can use Linux or Windows to debug an
application running on a Power PC board with a debugger running on a
Sun workstation.

To build GVD we are using the GtkAda GUI technology. GVD comes with
all the GtkAda benefits such as a pluggable look-and-feel, a set of
very high-level widgets and the ability to have the same look-and-feel
on all of your platforms.

You can dowload GVD (sources and binaries for GNU/Linux x86, Solaris sparc and
x86, Windows NT/2000, DEC Unix/Tru64, HP-UX, UnixWare, IRIX, AiX) and get more
information at http://libre.act-europe.fr/gvd

New features in GVD 1.2.4:
- General stabilization and improvements in error/warning messages.
- Better handling of VxWorks targets.
- Friendler handling of Yes/No type of dialogs.
- New menu: File->Add Symbols, particularly useful under VxWorks.
- GVD shows the main source file in the explorer when it opens.
- The fields in the "New Debugger" dialog are now filled with                     parameters from the command line.
- A message dialog now pops up when trying to detach a process
  while the underlying debugger is busy.
- The columns size and visibility for the stack window are now
  memorized from one session to another.
- Explorer displays return type for functions.
- In addition to GVD_ROOT, the path where gvd is launched is used to retrieve
  dynamically the prefix. The manual can thus be found more easily on Windows
  systems.


If you are interested in participating in the GVD development, do not
hesitate to contact us (mailto:gvd-devel at lists.act-europe.fr)

Arnaud Charlet <charlet at act-europe.fr>