From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15049 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2010 20:59:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 15029 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Dec 2010 20:59:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD 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; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:59:19 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oB9KxIB1007456 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:59:18 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oB9KxHvN004167; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:59:17 -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 oB9KxHrs018437; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:59:17 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id A64213780EF; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:59:16 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: RFA: NEWS entry for next-over-throw patch Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: 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: 2010-12/txt/msg00119.txt.bz2 This patch adds a note to NEWS describing the next-over-throw change. Please review. Tom 2010-12-09 Tom Tromey * NEWS: Document exception-handling change. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.413 diff -u -r1.413 NEWS --- NEWS 7 Dec 2010 17:26:03 -0000 1.413 +++ NEWS 9 Dec 2010 20:58:07 -0000 @@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ feature requires proper debuginfo support from the compiler; it was added to GCC 4.5. + ** The motion commands "next", "finish", "until", and "advance" now + work better when exceptions are thrown. In particular, GDB will + no longer lose control of the inferior; instead, the GDB will + stop the inferior at the point at which the exception is caught. + This functionality requires a change in the exception handling + code that was introduced in GCC 4.5. + * GDB now follows GCC's rules on accessing volatile objects when reading or writing target state during expression evaluation. One notable difference to prior behavior is that "print x = 0"