* Two new convenience functions $_cimag and $_creal that extract the
imaginary and real parts respectively from complex numbers.
+* New built-in convenience variables $_shell_exitcode and $_shell_exitsignal
+ provide the exitcode or exit status of the shell commands launched by
+ GDB commands such as "shell", "pipe" and "make".
+
* Python API
** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a
** gdb.Type has a new property 'objfile' which returns the objfile the
type was defined in.
-* New built-in convenience variables $_shell_exitcode and $_shell_exitsignal
- provide the exitcode or exit status of the shell commands launched by
- GDB commands such as "shell", "pipe" and "make".
-
* New commands
| [COMMAND] | SHELL_COMMAND
set style highlight intensity VALUE
Control the styling of highlightings.
-maint test-settings KIND
+maint set test-settings KIND
+maint show test-settings KIND
A set of commands used by the testsuite for exercising the settings
infrastructure.
"taas" commands, and their "-ascending" option can now be
abbreviated.
+ ** GDB can now complete the options of the "info threads" command.
+
** GDB can now complete the options of the "compile file" and
"compile code" commands. The "compile file" command now
completes on filenames.
were to be given as a command itself. This is intended for use by MI
frontends in cases when separate CLI and MI channels cannot be used.
+-catch-throw, -catch-rethrow, and -catch-catch
+ These can be used to catch C++ exceptions in a similar fashion to
+ the CLI commands 'catch throw', 'catch rethrow', and 'catch catch'.
+
* Testsuite
The testsuite now creates the files gdb.cmd (containing the arguments