* gregset.h (GDB_FPXREGSET_T): Remove.

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

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
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@@ -18,14 +18,27 @@ qGetTIBAddr
 
   Return the address of the Windows Thread Information Block of a given thread.
 
+qRelocInsn
+
+  In response to several of the tracepoint packets, the target may now
+  also respond with a number of intermediate `qRelocInsn' request
+  packets before the final result packet, to have GDB handle
+  relocating an instruction to execute at a different address.  This
+  is particularly useful for stubs that support fast tracepoints.  GDB
+  reports support for this feature in the qSupported packet.
+
 * The source command now accepts a -s option to force searching for the
   script in the source search path even if the script name specifies
   a directory.
 
 * New features in the GDB remote stub, GDBserver
 
-  - GDBserver now support tracepoints.  The feature is currently
-    supported by the i386-linux and amd64-linux builds.
+  - GDBserver now support tracepoints (including fast tracepoints).
+    The feature is currently supported by the i386-linux and
+    amd64-linux builds.  See the "Tracepoints support in gdbserver"
+    section in the manual for more information.
+
+  - GDBserver now supports x86_64 Windows 64-bit debugging.
 
 * GDB now sends xmlRegisters= in qSupported packet to indicate that
   it understands register description.
@@ -51,8 +64,24 @@ qGetTIBAddr
   its argument, limiting the functions selected by the regex to those
   in the specified file.
 
+* Support for remote debugging Windows and SymbianOS shared libraries
+  from Unix hosts has been improved.  Non Windows GDB builds now can
+  understand target reported file names that follow MS-DOS based file
+  system semantics, such as file names that include drive letters and
+  use the backslash character as directory separator.  This makes it
+  possible to transparently use the "set sysroot" and "set
+  solib-search-path" on Unix hosts to point as host copies of the
+  target's shared libraries.  See the new command "set
+  target-file-system-kind" described below, and the "Commands to
+  specify files" section in the user manual for more information.
+
 * New commands
 
+set target-file-system-kind unix|dos-based|auto
+show target-file-system-kind
+  Set or show the assumed file system kind for target reported file
+  names.
+
 save breakpoints <filename>
   Save all current breakpoint definitions to a file suitable for use
   in a later debugging session.  To read the saved breakpoint
@@ -64,13 +93,19 @@ is now deprecated.
 * Python scripting
 
 ** The GDB Python API now has access to breakpoints, symbols, symbol
-   tables, program spaces, and frame's code blocks.
+   tables, program spaces, and frame's code blocks.  Additionally, GDB
+   Parameters can now be created from the API, and manipulated via
+   set/show in the CLI.
 
 ** New functions gdb.target_charset, gdb.target_wide_charset,
-   gdb.progspaces, and gdb.current_progspace.
+   gdb.progspaces, gdb.current_progspace, and gdb.string_to_argv.
+
+** New exception gdb.GdbError.
 
 ** Pretty-printers are now also looked up in the current program space.
 
+** Pretty-printers can now be individually enabled and disabled.
+
 ** GDB now looks for names of Python scripts to auto-load in a
    special section named `.debug_gdb_scripts', in addition to looking
    for a OBJFILE-gdb.py script when OBJFILE is read by the debugger.
@@ -84,6 +119,10 @@ regular breakpoints.
 
 ARM Symbian                    arm*-*-symbianelf*
 
+* D language support.
+  GDB now supports debugging programs written in the D programming
+  language.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.1
 
 * C++ Improvements