[7/8] NEWS: Mention native target renames.

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Pedro Alves March 17, 2014, 3:23 p.m. UTC
  gdb/
2014-03-17  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* NEWS: Mention that the "child", "GNU, "djgpp", "darwin-child"
	and "procfs" targets are now called "native" instead.
---
 gdb/NEWS | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Eli Zaretskii March 17, 2014, 4:45 p.m. UTC | #1
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:23:03 +0000
> 
> gdb/
> 2014-03-17  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* NEWS: Mention that the "child", "GNU, "djgpp", "darwin-child"
> 	and "procfs" targets are now called "native" instead.
> ---
>  gdb/NEWS | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index 2a384ba..5bdda0a 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -76,6 +76,17 @@ maint ada show ignore-descriptive-types
>  
>  * The "catch syscall" command now works on s390*-linux* targets.
>  
> +* All native targets are now consistently called "native".
> +  Consequently, the "target child", "target GNU", "target djgpp",
> +  "target procfs" (Solaris/Irix/OSF/AIX) and "target darwin-child"
> +  commands have been replaced with "target native".  The QNX/NTO port
> +  leaves the "procfs" in place and adds a "native" target for
> +  consistency.  The impact on users should be minimal as these
> +  commands previously either throwed an error, or were no-ops.  The
> +  target's name is visible in the output of the following commands:
> +  "help target", "info target", "info files", "maint print
> +  target-stack".

OK, thanks.
  

Patch

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 2a384ba..5bdda0a 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -76,6 +76,17 @@  maint ada show ignore-descriptive-types
 
 * The "catch syscall" command now works on s390*-linux* targets.
 
+* All native targets are now consistently called "native".
+  Consequently, the "target child", "target GNU", "target djgpp",
+  "target procfs" (Solaris/Irix/OSF/AIX) and "target darwin-child"
+  commands have been replaced with "target native".  The QNX/NTO port
+  leaves the "procfs" in place and adds a "native" target for
+  consistency.  The impact on users should be minimal as these
+  commands previously either throwed an error, or were no-ops.  The
+  target's name is visible in the output of the following commands:
+  "help target", "info target", "info files", "maint print
+  target-stack".
+
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