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information and can be used to greatly speed up GDB startup and
operation. See the documentation for `save gdb-index' for details.
+* The "watch" command now accepts an optional "-location" argument.
+ When used, this causes gdb to watch the memory referred to by the
+ expression. Such a watchpoint is never deleted due to it going out
+ of scope.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.2
* Shared library support for remote targets by default