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* Two new convernience functions $_cimag and $_creal that extract the
imaginary and real parts respectively from complex numbers.
+* New commands
+
+set print max-depth
+show print max-depth
+ Allows deeply nested structures to be simplified when printing by
+ replacing deeply nested parts (beyond the max-depth) with ellipses.
+ The default max-depth is 20, but this can be set to unlimited to get
+ the old behavior back.
+
* Python API
** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a