A.5. Changes in GDB

Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.1 is distributed with GDB 7.6.1, which provides a number of bug fixes over the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system version and version 7.6 included in Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0. Below is a comprehensive list of new features in this release.

A.5.1. Changes Since Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0

The following features have been added since the release of GDB included in Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0:
  • It is now possible to use the ClassName::MemberVariable expression to access non-static member variables of a particular class in the current scope of implicit parameter this.
  • GDB now automatically loads files with the .gdb and .py file extension located in the /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/etc/gdbinit.d/ directory on startup.