Re: [PATCH 3/3] tdesc: handle arbitrary strings in tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p

Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08T02:40:51Z

> From: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 07:15:47 +0900
>
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
>
> *** Changes since GDB 8.0
>
> +* GDB now supports dynamically creating arbitrary register groups specified
> + in xml target descriptors. This allows for finer grain grouping of
> + registers on systems with a large amount of registers.
> +

I'm confused: in the commentary for the patch to the manual you said
the feature existed, but wasn't documented. So why is it mentioned in
NEWS as a new feature? Should we have more documentation changes, if
it's new?

Thanks.