From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25567 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2010 20:35:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 25559 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Feb 2010 20:35:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:35:13 +0000 Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1HKZCAu017161 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:35:12 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1HKZBiD013231; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:35:11 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1HKZAVw021009; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:35:10 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2B875379956; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:35:10 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: RFA: another NEWS update Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-02/txt/msg00443.txt.bz2 This updates NEWS to list all the Python API improvements since 7.0. Ok? Tom 2010-02-17 Tom Tromey * NEWS: Add Python API Improvements section. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.354 diff -u -r1.354 NEWS --- NEWS 17 Feb 2010 20:08:24 -0000 1.354 +++ NEWS 17 Feb 2010 20:34:05 -0000 @@ -210,6 +210,20 @@ off, but this introduces a slight performance penalty. The default is on. +* Python API Improvements + + ** GDB provides the new class gdb.LazyString. This is useful in + some pretty-printing cases. The new method gdb.Value.lazy_string + provides a simple way to create objects of this type. + + ** The fields returned by gdb.Type.fields now have an + `is_base_class' attribute. + + ** The new method gdb.Type.range returns the range of an array type. + + ** The new method gdb.parse_and_eval can be used to parse and + evaluate an expression. + * New remote packets QTDV