Re: COMMIT: addrmap changes

[Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false.org> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:44:27PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
>> 
>> I've committed the following, approved in another thread.
>
> Thanks.  Could you please, please write a NEWS entry for this?

Sure.  Is the below okay?

I thought it would be nice to consolidate this with the multi-location
breakpoint announcement under a "debugging optimized code" category,
but the breakpoint work is also a C++ issue.

gdb/ChangeLog:
2007-12-05  Jim Blandy  <jimb@codesourcery.com>

	* NEWS: Mention support for non-contiguous lexical blocks and
	function bodies.

diff -r 55dcfe0668ab gdb/NEWS
--- a/gdb/NEWS	Wed Dec 05 10:18:35 2007 -0800
+++ b/gdb/NEWS	Wed Dec 05 13:29:46 2007 -0800
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ is resolved.
 * GDB now supports breakpoints with multiple locations,
 including breakpoints on C++ constructors, inside C++ templates,
 and in inlined functions.
+
+* GDB's ability to debug optimized code has been improved.  GDB more
+accurately identifies function bodies and lexical blocks that occupy
+more than one contiguous range of addresses.
 
 * Target descriptions can now describe registers for PowerPC.