[RFA/NEWS] Mention new feature "Ada tasking support"

Joel Brobecker
2008-10-22T19:57:46Z

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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,
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Joel

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Index: NEWS
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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,