gdb: change 'maint info section' to use command options

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / NEWS

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index d1f721c39536c81da0f10785d25ad6c77fb70ccc..1dfbbc648eb62f30ef2cfb249b12c9acd5364f36 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 
 *** Changes since GDB 10
 
+* Building GDB now requires GMP (The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic
+  Library).
+
 * MI changes
 
  ** '-break-insert --qualified' and '-dprintf-insert --qualified'
@@ -21,12 +24,29 @@
   $HOME/.gdbinit.  On Apple hosts the search order is instead:
   $HOME/Library/Preferences/gdb/gdbinit, $HOME/.gdbinit.
 
+* GDB now supports fixed point types which are described in DWARF
+  as base types with a fixed-point encoding.  Additionally, support
+  for the DW_AT_GNU_numerator and DW_AT_GNU_denominator has also
+  been added.
+
+  For Ada, this allows support for fixed point types without requiring
+  the use of the GNAT encoding (based on information added to the type's
+  name following a GNAT-specific format).
+
 * New commands
 
 set debug event-loop
 show debug event-loop
   Control the display of debug output about GDB's event loop.
 
+maintenance flush symbol-cache
+maintenance flush register-cache
+  These new commands are equivalent to the already existing commands
+  'maintenance flush-symbol-cache' and 'flushregs' respectively.
+
+maintenance flush dcache
+  A new command to flush the dcache.
+
 * Changed commands
 
 break [PROBE_MODIFIER] [LOCATION] [thread THREADNUM]
@@ -49,6 +69,32 @@ condition [-force] N COND
   GDB into defining the condition even when COND is invalid for all the
   current locations of breakpoint N.
 
+flushregs
+maintenance flush-symbol-cache
+  These commands are deprecated in favor of the new commands
+  'maintenance flush register-cache' and 'maintenance flush
+  symbol-cache' respectively.
+
+set style version foreground COLOR
+set style version background COLOR
+set style version intensity VALUE
+  Control the styling of GDB's version number text.
+
+inferior [ID]
+  When the ID parameter is omitted, then this command prints information
+  about the current inferior.  When the ID parameter is present, the
+  behavior of the command is unchanged and have the inferior ID become
+  the current inferior.
+
+maintenance info sections
+  The ALLOBJ keyword has been replaced with an -all-objects command
+  line flag.  It is now possible to filter which sections are printed
+  even when -all-objects is passed.
+
+* Removed targets and native configurations
+
+ARM Symbian                    arm*-*-symbianelf*
+
 *** Changes in GDB 10
 
 * There are new feature names for ARC targets: "org.gnu.gdb.arc.core"