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authorPhilippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>2019-04-28 14:44:44 +0200
committerPhilippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>2019-10-31 23:36:39 +0100
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NEWS and documentation for $_gdb_setting and $_gdb_setting_str.
gdb/ChangeLog 2019-10-31 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> * NEWS: Mention $_gdb_setting, $_gdb_setting_str, $_gdb_maint_setting and $_gdb_maint_setting_str. gdb/doc/ChangeLog 2019-10-31 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> * gdb.texinfo (Convenience Funs): Document the new $_gdb_setting_str, $_gdb_maint_setting and $_gdb_maint_setting_str convenience functions.
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scripts that should work error-free with many different versions,
such as in system-wide init files.
+* New built-in convenience functions $_gdb_setting, $_gdb_setting_str,
+ $_gdb_maint_setting and $_gdb_maint_setting_str provide access to values
+ of the GDB settings and the GDB maintenance settings. They are handy
+ for changing the logic of user defined commands depending on the
+ current GDB settings.
+
* GDB now supports Thread Local Storage (TLS) variables on several
FreeBSD architectures (amd64, i386, powerpc, riscv). Other
architectures require kernel changes. TLS is not yet supported for