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

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
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@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@
   ** A new class, gdb.printing.FlagEnumerationPrinter, can be used to
      apply "flag enum"-style pretty-printing to any enum.
 
+  ** gdb.lookup_symbol can now work when there is no current frame.
+
+  ** gdb.Symbol now has a 'line' attribute, holding the line number in
+     the source at which the symbol was defined.
+
+  ** gdb.Symbol now has the new attribute 'needs_frame' and the new
+     method 'value'.  The former indicates whether the symbol needs a
+     frame in order to compute its value, and the latter computes the
+     symbol's value.
+
 * GDBserver now supports stdio connections.
   E.g. (gdb) target remote | ssh myhost gdbserver - hello
 
@@ -28,6 +38,24 @@
   now set a breakpoint in build/gcc/expr.c, but not
   build/libcpp/expr.c.
 
+* The "info proc" and "generate-core-file" commands will now also
+  work on remote targets connected to GDBserver on Linux.
+
+* The command "info catch" has been removed.  It has been disabled
+  since December 2007.
+
+* New commands
+
+  ** "catch load" and "catch unload" can be used to stop when a shared
+     library is loaded or unloaded, respectively.
+
+  ** "enable count" can be used to auto-disable a breakpoint after
+     several hits.
+
+* New targets
+
+Renesas RL78                   rl78-*-elf
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.4
 
 * GDB now handles ambiguous linespecs more consistently; the existing