Tweak the handling of $GDBHISTSIZE edge cases [PR gdb/16999]

[external/binutils.git] / gdb / NEWS

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 8b813af..45f9708 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@
 
 * The HISTSIZE environment variable is no longer read when determining
   the size of GDB's command history.  GDB now instead reads the dedicated
-  GDBHISTSIZE environment variable.
+  GDBHISTSIZE environment variable.  Setting GDBHISTSIZE to "-1" or to "" now
+  disables truncation of command history.  Non-numeric values of GDBHISTSIZE
+  are ignored.
 
 * Guile Scripting