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authorPhilippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>2019-05-04 23:48:36 +0200
committerPhilippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>2019-07-29 21:43:08 +0200
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Document 'set print frame-info|frame-arguments presence'.
gdb/ChangeLog 2019-06-19 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> * NEWS: Mention 'set|show print frame-info'. Mention new 'presence' value for 'frame-arguments'. Mention new '-frame-info' backtrace argument. Mention that python frame filtering code is now consistent with what 'backtrace' command prints. gdb/doc/ChangeLog 2019-07-29 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> * gdb.texinfo (Backtrace): Document the new '-frame-info' backtrace option. Reference 'set print frame-info'. (Print Settings): Document 'set|show print frame-info'. Document new 'presence' value for 'set print frame-arguments.
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@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@
** gdb.Type has a new property 'objfile' which returns the objfile the
type was defined in.
+ ** The frame information printed by the python frame filtering code
+ is now consistent with what the 'backtrace' command prints when
+ there are no filters, or when the 'backtrace' '-no-filters' option
+ is given.
+
* New commands
| [COMMAND] | SHELL_COMMAND
@@ -104,6 +109,14 @@ maint show test-settings KIND
A set of commands used by the testsuite for exercising the settings
infrastructure.
+set print frame-info [short-location|location|location-and-address
+ |source-and-location|source-line|auto]
+show print frame-info
+ This controls what frame information is printed by the commands printing
+ a frame. This setting will e.g. influence the behaviour of 'backtrace',
+ 'frame', 'stepi'. The python frame filtering also respect this setting.
+ The 'backtrace' '-frame-info' option can override this global setting.
+
* Changed commands
help
@@ -130,6 +143,10 @@ show style
a style name in their output using its own style, to help
the user visualize the different styles.
+set print frame-arguments
+ The new value 'presence' indicates to only indicate the presence of
+ arguments using ..., instead of printing argument names and values.
+
set print raw-frame-arguments
show print raw-frame-arguments
@@ -184,6 +201,8 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
-entry-values no|only|preferred|if-needed|both|compact|default
-frame-arguments all|scalars|none
-raw-frame-arguments [on|off]
+ -frame-info auto|source-line|location|source-and-location
+ |location-and-address|short-location
-past-main [on|off]
-past-entry [on|off]