gdb/mi: Add new commands -symbol-info-{functions,variables,types}

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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
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@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@
   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
@@ -71,6 +77,9 @@
   ** The new function gdb.lookup_static_symbol can be used to look up
      symbols with static linkage.
 
+  ** The new function gdb.lookup_static_symbols can be used to look up
+     all static symbols with static linkage.
+
   ** gdb.Objfile has new methods 'lookup_global_symbol' and
      'lookup_static_symbol' to lookup a symbol from this objfile only.
 
@@ -140,11 +149,24 @@ set style highlight background COLOR
 set style highlight intensity VALUE
   Control the styling of highlightings.
 
+maint set worker-threads
+maint show worker-threads
+  Control the number of worker threads that can be used by GDB.  The
+  default is "unlimited", which lets GDB choose a number that is
+  reasonable.  Currently worker threads are only used when demangling
+  the names of linker symbols.
+
 maint set test-settings KIND
 maint show test-settings KIND
   A set of commands used by the testsuite for exercising the settings
   infrastructure.
 
+maint set tui-resize-message [on|off]
+maint show tui-resize-message
+  Control whether GDB prints a message each time the terminal is
+  resized when in TUI mode.  This is primarily useful for testing the
+  TUI.
+
 set print frame-info [short-location|location|location-and-address
                         |source-and-location|source-line|auto]
 show print frame-info
@@ -153,6 +175,30 @@ show print frame-info
   'frame', 'stepi'.  The python frame filtering also respect this setting.
   The 'backtrace' '-frame-info' option can override this global setting.
 
+info modules [-q] [REGEXP]
+  Return a list of Fortran modules matching REGEXP, or all modules if
+  no REGEXP is given.
+
+info module functions [-q] [-m MODULE_REGEXP] [-t TYPE_REGEXP] [REGEXP]
+  Return a list of functions within all modules, grouped by module.
+  The list of functions can be restricted with the optional regular
+  expressions.  MODULE_REGEXP matches against the module name,
+  TYPE_REGEXP matches against the function type signature, and REGEXP
+  matches against the function name.
+
+info module variables [-q] [-m MODULE_REGEXP] [-t TYPE_REGEXP] [REGEXP]
+  Return a list of variables within all modules, grouped by module.
+  The list of variables can be restricted with the optional regular
+  expressions.  MODULE_REGEXP matches against the module name,
+  TYPE_REGEXP matches against the variable type, and REGEXP matches
+  against the variable name.
+
+set debug remote-packet-max-chars
+show debug remote-packet-max-chars
+  Controls the number of characters to output in a remote packet when using
+  "set debug remote".
+  The default is 512 bytes.
+
 * Changed commands
 
 help
@@ -320,6 +366,10 @@ focus, winheight, +, -, >, <
   These can be used to catch C++ exceptions in a similar fashion to
   the CLI commands 'catch throw', 'catch rethrow', and 'catch catch'.
 
+-symbol-info-functions, -symbol-info-types, and -symbol-info-variables
+  These commands are the MI equivalent of the CLI commands 'info
+  functions', 'info types', and 'info variables' respectively.
+
 * Other MI changes
 
  ** The default version of the MI interpreter is now 3 (-i=mi3).
@@ -372,6 +422,11 @@ focus, winheight, +, -, >, <
 
 TI PRU                                 pru-*-elf
 
+* Removed targets and native configurations
+
+Solaris 10                     i?86-*-solaris2.10, x86_64-*-solaris2.10,
+                               sparc*-*-solaris2.10
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.3
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on