[RFA_v4 5/8] Announce the user visible changes for frame/thread apply in NEWS.

Philippe Waroquiers
2018-07-10T21:39:43Z

'frame apply', faas, taas, tfaas commands and [FLAG]... arg for thread apply.

gdb/ChangeLog
2018-07-09 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>

* NEWS: Mention new commands. Mention change to 'thread apply'.
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gdb/NEWS | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 2d1d161233..2309e34ac2 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,33 @@

*** Changes since GDB 8.2

+* New commands
+
+frame apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT | level LEVEL...] [FLAG]... COMMAND
+ Apply a command to some frames.
+ FLAG arguments allow 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'.
+
+* Changed commands
+
+thread apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT] [FLAG]... COMMAND
+ The 'thread apply' command accepts new FLAG arguments.
+ FLAG arguments allow to control what output to produce and how to handle
+ errors raised when applying COMMAND to a thread.
+
*** Changes in GDB 8.2

* The 'set disassembler-options' command now supports specifying options
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