Arm: Change CRC from fpu feature to archititectural extension

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

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
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--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@
   scripts that should work error-free with many different versions,
   such as in system-wide init files.
 
+* New built-in convenience functions $_gdb_setting, $_gdb_setting_str,
+  $_gdb_maint_setting and $_gdb_maint_setting_str provide access to values
+  of the GDB settings and the GDB maintenance settings.  They are handy
+  for changing the logic of user defined commands depending on the
+  current GDB settings.
+
 * GDB now supports Thread Local Storage (TLS) variables on several
   FreeBSD architectures (amd64, i386, powerpc, riscv).  Other
   architectures require kernel changes.  TLS is not yet supported for
@@ -37,6 +43,21 @@
 * New convenience variable $_ada_exception holds the address of the
   Ada exception being thrown.  This is set by Ada-related catchpoints.
 
+* GDB can now place breakpoints on nested functions and subroutines in
+  Fortran code.  The '::' operator can be used between parent and
+  child scopes when placing breakpoints, for example:
+
+    (gdb) break outer_function::inner_function
+
+  The 'outer_function::' prefix is only needed if 'inner_function' is
+  not visible in the current scope.
+
+* In addition to the system-wide gdbinit file, if configured with
+ --with-system-gdbinit-dir, GDB will now also load files in that directory
+ as system gdbinit files, unless the -nx or -n flag is provided.  Files
+ with extensions .gdb, .py and .scm are supported as long as GDB was
+ compiled with support for that language.
+
 * Python API
 
   ** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a
@@ -56,6 +77,9 @@
   ** The new function gdb.lookup_static_symbol can be used to look up
      symbols with static linkage.
 
+  ** The new function gdb.lookup_static_symbols can be used to look up
+     all static symbols with static linkage.
+
   ** gdb.Objfile has new methods 'lookup_global_symbol' and
      'lookup_static_symbol' to lookup a symbol from this objfile only.
 
@@ -130,6 +154,12 @@ maint show test-settings KIND
   A set of commands used by the testsuite for exercising the settings
   infrastructure.
 
+maint set tui-resize-message [on|off]
+maint show tui-resize-message
+  Control whether GDB prints a message each time the terminal is
+  resized when in TUI mode.  This is primarily useful for testing the
+  TUI.
+
 set print frame-info [short-location|location|location-and-address
                         |source-and-location|source-line|auto]
 show print frame-info
@@ -138,6 +168,24 @@ show print frame-info
   'frame', 'stepi'.  The python frame filtering also respect this setting.
   The 'backtrace' '-frame-info' option can override this global setting.
 
+info modules [-q] [REGEXP]
+  Return a list of Fortran modules matching REGEXP, or all modules if
+  no REGEXP is given.
+
+info module functions [-q] [-m MODULE_REGEXP] [-t TYPE_REGEXP] [REGEXP]
+  Return a list of functions within all modules, grouped by module.
+  The list of functions can be restricted with the optional regular
+  expressions.  MODULE_REGEXP matches against the module name,
+  TYPE_REGEXP matches against the function type signature, and REGEXP
+  matches against the function name.
+
+info module variables [-q] [-m MODULE_REGEXP] [-t TYPE_REGEXP] [REGEXP]
+  Return a list of variables within all modules, grouped by module.
+  The list of variables can be restricted with the optional regular
+  expressions.  MODULE_REGEXP matches against the module name,
+  TYPE_REGEXP matches against the variable type, and REGEXP matches
+  against the variable name.
+
 * Changed commands
 
 help
@@ -357,6 +405,11 @@ focus, winheight, +, -, >, <
 
 TI PRU                                 pru-*-elf
 
+* Removed targets and native configurations
+
+Solaris 10                     i?86-*-solaris2.10, x86_64-*-solaris2.10,
+                               sparc*-*-solaris2.10
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.3
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on