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[external/binutils.git] / gdb / NEWS

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@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
   architectures require kernel changes.  TLS is not yet supported for
   amd64 and i386 process core dumps.
 
-* Support for Pointer Authentication on AArch64 Linux.
+* Support for Pointer Authentication (PAC) on AArch64 Linux.  Return
+  addresses that required unmasking are shown in the backtrace with the
+  postfix [PAC].
 
 * Two new convenience functions $_cimag and $_creal that extract the
   imaginary and real parts respectively from complex numbers.
@@ -25,6 +27,8 @@
   provide the exitcode or exit status of the shell commands launched by
   GDB commands such as "shell", "pipe" and "make".
 
+* The RX port now supports XML target descriptions.
+
 * Python API
 
   ** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a
@@ -252,6 +256,11 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
      printing of some header information in a similar fashion to "info
      variables" and "info functions".
 
+  ** The "info variables", "info functions", and "whereis" commands
+     now take a '-n' flag that excludes non-debug symbols (symbols
+     from the symbol table, not from the debug info such as DWARF)
+     from the results.
+
 * Completion improvements
 
   ** GDB can now complete the options of the "thread apply all" and
@@ -285,6 +294,13 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
   These can be used to catch C++ exceptions in a similar fashion to
   the CLI commands 'catch throw', 'catch rethrow', and 'catch catch'.
 
+* Other MI changes
+
+ ** Backtraces and frames include a new optional field addr_flags which is
+    given after the addr field.  On AArch64 this contains PAC if the address
+    has been masked in the frame.  On all other targets the field is not
+    present.
+
 * Testsuite
 
   The testsuite now creates the files gdb.cmd (containing the arguments
@@ -297,6 +313,11 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
   Using another implementation of the make program or an earlier version of
   GNU make to build GDB or GDBserver is not supported.
 
+* Building GDB now requires GNU readline >= 7.0.
+
+  GDB now bundles GNU readline 8.0, but if you choose to use
+  --with-system-readline, only readline >= 7.0 can be used.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.3
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on