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
* GDB can now be compiled with Python 3 on Windows.
+* New convenience variable $_ada_exception holds the address of the
+ Ada exception being thrown. This is set by Ada-related catchpoints.
+
+* GDB can now place breakpoints on nested functions and subroutines in
+ Fortran code. The '::' operator can be used between parent and
+ child scopes when placing breakpoints, for example:
+
+ (gdb) break outer_function::inner_function
+
+ The 'outer_function::' prefix is only needed if 'inner_function' is
+ not visible in the current scope.
+
+* In addition to the system-wide gdbinit file, if configured with
+ --with-system-gdbinit-dir, GDB will now also load files in that directory
+ as system gdbinit files, unless the -nx or -n flag is provided. Files
+ with extensions .gdb, .py and .scm are supported as long as GDB was
+ compiled with support for that language.
+
* Python API
** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a
** 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.
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
'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
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).
both debugging standalone Cell/B.E. SPU applications and integrated debugging
of Cell/B.E. applications that use both the PPU and SPU architectures.
+* New Simulators
+
+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
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