[RFC 5/5] Announce 'frame apply', faas, taas, tfaas commands and -FLAGS... arg for frame apply

Philippe Waroquiers
2018-05-05T19:28:30Z

Announce the user visible changes.
---
gdb/NEWS | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index cef558039e..8ee4db985d 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -14,6 +14,24 @@

* New commands

+frame apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT] [-FLAGS...] COMMAND
+ Apply a command to a number of frames.
+ The FLAGS allows to control what output to produce and how to handle
+ errors raised when applying COMMAND to a frame.
+
+taas COMMAND
+ Apply a command to all threads (ignoring errors and empty output)
+ Shortcut for 'thread apply all -s COMMAND'
+
+faas COMMAND
+ Apply a command to all frames (ignoring errors and empty output)
+ Shortcut for 'frame apply all -s COMMAND'
+
+tfaas COMMAND
+ Apply a command to all frames of all threads (ignoring errors and empty
+ output).
+ Shortcut for 'thread apply all -s frame apply all -s COMMAND'
+
set debug fbsd-nat
show debug fbsd-nat
Control display of debugging info regarding the FreeBSD native target.
@@ -27,6 +45,13 @@ set|show record btrace cpu
Controls the processor to be used for enabling errata workarounds for
branch trace decode.

+* Changed commands
+
+thread apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT] [-FLAGS...] COMMAND
+ The thread apply command accepts a new argument FLAGS.
+ The FLAGS allows to control what output to produce and how to handle errors
+ raised when applying COMMAND to a frame.
+
* Python API

** Type alignment is now exposed via the "align" attribute of a gdb.Type.
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