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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2019-03-30 12:58:33 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2019-03-30 12:58:33 +0300 |
| commit | 7734102d6d8b5a0ccea166f8e944f84dc896b9ae (patch) | |
| tree | d5badcb54e32b5979a785ef7ead0254d5fc2658d /gdb/doc | |
| parent | c6f03bce79fd93f152749e2a299a03ab78421f5f (diff) | |
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Introduce new convenience variables $_gdb_major and $_gdb_minor
gdb/ChangeLog:
2019-03-30 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* NEWS: Announce $_gdb_major and $_gdb_minor.
* top.c (init_gdb_version_vars): New function.
(gdb_init): Call init_gdb_version_vars.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2019-03-30 Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
* gdb.base/default.exp: Add values for $_gdb_major and
$_gdb_minor.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2019-03-30 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Convenience Vars): Document $_gdb_major and
$_gdb_minor.
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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 13 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 87e20d3..c0d5aac 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2019-03-30 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> + + * gdb.texinfo (Convenience Vars): Document $_gdb_major and + $_gdb_minor. + 2019-03-26 Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> * python.texi (Pretty Printing API): Document use of None for the diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 4c1d5e8..bb958cf 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -11197,7 +11197,7 @@ For example, it will be empty before you execute the @code{run} command. @vindex $_tlb@r{, convenience variable} The variable @code{$_tlb} is automatically set when debugging applications running on MS-Windows in native mode or connected to -gdbserver that supports the @code{qGetTIBAddr} request. +gdbserver that supports the @code{qGetTIBAddr} request. @xref{General Query Packets}. This variable contains the address of the thread information block. @@ -11211,6 +11211,17 @@ The thread number of the current thread. @xref{thread numbers}. @item $_gthread The global number of the current thread. @xref{global thread numbers}. +@item $_gdb_major +@itemx $_gdb_minor +@vindex $_gdb_major@r{, convenience variable} +@vindex $_gdb_minor@r{, convenience variable} +The major and minor version numbers of the running @value{GDBN}. +Development snapshots and pretest versions have their minor version +incremented by one; thus, @value{GDBN} pretest 9.11.90 will produce +the value 12 for @code{$_gdb_minor}. These variables allow you to +write scripts that work with different versions of @value{GDBN} +without errors caused by features unavailable in some of those +versions. @end table @node Convenience Funs |