ANNOUNCE: Release 1.1.0 of the GNU Visual Debugger

[Arnaud Charlet <charlet ACT-Europe FR>]

We are pleased to announce the availability of GVD, 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

New features in GVD 1.1.0:
- Complete documentation now available.
- Under Windows, non ASCII characters are now displayed instead of being
  truncated.
- New command line option: --pargs to set program arguments on the command
  line.
- New command line option: --dargs to specify additional debugger arguments.
- Start up of big programs have been significantly improved.
- Menu "Print" in the code editor contextual menu now prints the
  variable inside the command window instead of the canvas.
- Support for preferences (menu Edit->Preferences), with many
  user-configurable options. See documentation for more details.
- Scrolling of assembly window outside of displayed range is now possible
- The Data window can now be separated from the main window
  (Edit->Preferences, Data/Separate Window).
- The Memory View now handles editing in non-Hex mode, and the possibility
  of displaying ASCII and another format at the same time.
- The different window settings are now remembered from one session to
  another.
- New command line option --editor-window that gives a much better
  integration with external editors such as Glide/Emacs.
- A graphical list of processes is now displayed when attaching to a process.
- New item in data and source editor contextual menus: view memory at the
  address of a given variable.
- New item in the source editor contextual menu: print dereferenced variable

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

For the GVD team,

Arnaud Charlet <charlet act-europe fr>