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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [RFA/NEWS] Mention new feature "Ada tasking support"
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022195702.GC3638@adacore.com> (raw)

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Hello,

I have just checked in support for Ada tasking, together with the
documentation patch that Eli reviewed. Here is the associated NEWS
entry.

2008-10-22  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>

        * NEWS: Add entry for new feature (Ada tasking support).

OK to commit?

Thanks,
-- 
Joel

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Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.291
diff -u -p -r1.291 NEWS
--- NEWS	20 Oct 2008 16:18:59 -0000	1.291
+++ NEWS	22 Oct 2008 19:55:13 -0000
@@ -90,6 +90,20 @@ are treated as the standard definitions,
   GDB now has support for scripting using Python.  Whether this is
   available is determined at configure time.
 
+* Ada tasking support
+
+  Ada tasks can now be inspected in GDB. The following commands have
+  been introduced:
+
+    info tasks
+      Print the list of Ada tasks.
+    info task TASK_NO
+      Print detailed information about task TASK_NO.
+    task
+      Print the ID of the current task.
+    task TASK_NO
+      Switch the context of debugging to task TASK_NO.
+
 * New commands
 
 find [/size-char] [/max-count] start-address, end-address|+search-space-size,

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-22 19:57 Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-10-22 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-22 20:18   ` Joel Brobecker
2008-10-22 21:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-22 22:15       ` Joel Brobecker

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