CGDB 0.8.0 released

[Bob Rossi]

cgdb-0.8.0 Released
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Downloading:

Go to http://cgdb.github.io/ for download link and instructions.

This new version contains the following changes:

cgdb-0.8.0 (01/16/2022)

* Fix issue #298 - CGDB now exits when gdb exits
Previously if gdb exited but the inferior, or child of the inferior
was still running, cgdb would possibly continue running in a
non responsive state. Now cgdb exits when gdb does.

* Fix issue #278, Single stepping through disassembly without debug
symbols does not move arrow in source window. Now the arrow moves in
the source window as expected.

* Fix issue #135 CGDB freezes when pressing "o" to open the file dialog
Previously, if you attempted to open the file dialog, cgdb would
sometimes hang, due to a gdbwire parsing bug from the gdb response.
This has been resolved.

* Fix issue #152, breakpoint handling is broken in disasembly view
Previously, if you set a breakpoint in the source view, it would not
be reflected in the disassembly view, and vice versa. Now if you set
a breakpoint in either view, it should be reflected in the other.

* Fix issue #260, CGDB would not process commands after F5, F6, etc
If F5, F6, F7, F8, F10 were hit, CGDB would no longer process GDB
commands, like setting breakpoints, etc. Now CGDB works as expected.

* CGDB implements a virtual terminal in the GDB window
- The GDB scroller is now a virtual terminal (using libvterm)
- The scrollback buffer has been reimplemented using libvterm
The cursor row/col position is now known, rather than just the row
- Searching in the scrollback buffer is improved
- The scrollback buffer size is configurable with a new option,
scrollbackbuffersize (sbbs) and is defaulted to 10000.
- Mark commands in the GDB scroller have been removed
- Unicode is now fully supported in the gdb window
- libvterm does not support reflow yet, so resizing the terminal or
switching the window orientation (winsplitorientation) after startup
may cause the text in the GDB window to not be as expected
- Colors in the GDB window are not fully supported yet.
Ncurses is difficult to work with, considering switching.
RGB vterm colors are unsupported at the moment.

Fix the following github issues
- When I use set wso=vertical, I use the GDB window to print the
variable value, which will overflow the rightboundary #274
- Long lines from GDB output are not wrapped #265
- Some characters in the editor are incorrect #261
- Setting prompt to unicode character doesn't work as expected #257
- cgdb prints '[?2004h' in xfce4 terminal #256
- [regression] prefixing "04h" characters in the gdb prompt since
fixing #255
- GDB console does not display color #251
- gdb ANSI escape codes only in cgdb #189
- Cursor offset gets lost when typing UTF-8 characters in the
gdb window #121

* CGDB implements GDB/MI in favor of GDB/Annotations
- CGDB now communicates with GDB using MI only (instead of Annotations)
using the new-ui GDB command
- CGDB now requires GDB 7.12 or newer
- CGDB now fully supports the GDB console, including readline and
communicating with the inferior (the program being debugged)
- CGDB no longer uses the inferior tty option to talk to the inferior

Fix the following github issues
- Messed up input with latest gdb #247
- press T, it cannot open I/O window #244 (no longer necessary)
- Support disabling the inferior pty #241
- Any plan to add tty window back? #209
- Debugging a forking program fails on first run #204
- Ctrl - T doesn't seem to work (cgdb 0.7.0) #193
- inputrc enable-keypad messing with readline #190
- GDB command-line options not working #160
- Logging output uses machine interface? #158
- Pagination of long output is not properly handled #145
- cgdb stucks on fgets #130
- Autocompletion on directories failes to append '/' #96
- GDB Prompt Hangs after Pressing Tab in a "Command List" #67

* Add the nexti and stepi configuration commands

* Fix issue #239, ANSI escape issues with GDB-9
Color sequences like, [?1l,[?1h,=,>" are now ignored by CGDB rather
than producing garbage looking text in the gdb terminal.

* Fix auto source reload issue, issue #235 and #221
Occasionally, CGDB would not properly reload source files when they
had changed. Now CGDB will reload them on change.

* CGDB works again with newer versions of GDB (gdb 8.3 and above)
CGDB annotation support was broken by the following GDB issue,
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25190
Changing CGDB from 'set height 0' to 'set pagination off' works
around the issue, even though I thought they were identical commands.

* CGDB now supports a configurable home directory. If the environment
variable 'CGDB_DIR' is set to a directory name, CGDB will use the
specified directory instead of '~/.cgdb/'.

* Fix issue #219 - CGDB users on Gentoo were experiencing segfaults at startup
due to mismatched wide-character support between the ncurses and tinfo
libraries. The build system has been updated to correctly pair the versions
of these libraries.


Enjoy,
The CGDB Team

[William.Leo]

New release, good news. Thx!

[Eric Lin]

Thanks for the new release.

However, I am getting this error while installing:

configure: error: CGDB requires putenv to build.

Any suggestion to fix the problem ?

Thanks.

Eric

[jre...@gmail.com]

Thanks so much for the new version!

Do you have a plan to add the plus feature of displaying debug info (local vars, stacks, etc.), also to the 0.8 version?

Thanks,

Jaerim

[Robert Rossi]

I don't have the time at the moment.

We would need a better windowing interface to switch between the different widgets.

It's a good idea however. CGDB is more ready for it now than it ever has been.

Thanks,

Bobby Rossi

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[RAFIK SALMI]

Hi guys ,

I am working with kali linux distribution , and my goal is to work in a "C" program where i write those 2 commands :

$ gcc -g -o  hello hello.c

$ cgdb hello

but the terminal always displays what's in the screenshot , the upper half of the screen steal always with that blue text without displaying the program
What should I do ?