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-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo6
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index d38550a..7d8002e 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2015-06-17 Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
+ * gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention that setting
+ GDBHISTSIZE to the empty string disables history truncation.
+
+2015-06-17 Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
+
PR gdb/16999
* gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention new GDBHISTSIZE
behavior.
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 9889b69..c9a532a 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -22641,9 +22641,9 @@ Stop recording command history in a file.
Set the number of commands which @value{GDBN} keeps in its history list.
This defaults to the value of the environment variable @env{GDBHISTSIZE}, or
to 256 if this variable is not set. Non-numeric values of @env{GDBHISTSIZE}
-are ignored. If @var{size} is @code{unlimited} or if @env{GDBHISTSIZE} is a
-negative number, the number of commands @value{GDBN} keeps in the history list
-is unlimited.
+are ignored. If @var{size} is @code{unlimited} or if @env{GDBHISTSIZE} is
+either a negative number or the empty string, then the number of commands
+@value{GDBN} keeps in the history list is unlimited.
@end table
History expansion assigns special meaning to the character @kbd{!}.