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To delete such an element, the scripts needs to use an explicit
"delete array[idx]" statement rather than something like "array[idx]=0".
+- The new "-P" option controls whether prologue searching heuristics
+ will be activated for function probes. This was needed to get correct
+ debugging information (dwarf location list) data for $target variables.
+ Modern compilers (gcc 4.1+) tend not to need this heuristic, so it is
+ no longer default. A new configure flag (--enable-prologues) restores
+ it as a default setting, and is appropriate for older compilers (gcc 3.*).
* What's new since version 0.5.10?