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[RFA_v4,5/8] Announce the user visible changes for frame/thread apply in NEWS.

Message ID 20180710213926.32240-6-philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be
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Philippe Waroquiers July 10, 2018, 9:39 p.m. UTC 
  'frame apply', faas, taas, tfaas commands and [FLAG]... arg for thread apply.

gdb/ChangeLog
2018-07-09  Philippe Waroquiers  <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>

	* NEWS: Mention new commands. Mention change to 'thread apply'.
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 gdb/NEWS | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 2d1d161233..2309e34ac2 100644
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@@ -3,6 +3,33 @@ 
 
 *** Changes since GDB 8.2
 
+* New commands
+
+frame apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT | level LEVEL...] [FLAG]... COMMAND
+  Apply a command to some frames.
+  FLAG arguments allow to control what output to produce and how to handle
+  errors raised when applying COMMAND to a frame.
+
+taas COMMAND
+  Apply a command to all threads (ignoring errors and empty output).
+  Shortcut for 'thread apply all -s COMMAND'.
+
+faas COMMAND
+  Apply a command to all frames (ignoring errors and empty output).
+  Shortcut for 'frame apply all -s COMMAND'.
+
+tfaas COMMAND
+  Apply a command to all frames of all threads (ignoring errors and empty
+  output).
+  Shortcut for 'thread apply all -s frame apply all -s COMMAND'.
+
+* Changed commands
+
+thread apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT] [FLAG]... COMMAND
+  The 'thread apply' command accepts new FLAG arguments.
+  FLAG arguments allow to control what output to produce and how to handle
+  errors raised when applying COMMAND to a thread.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.2
 
 * The 'set disassembler-options' command now supports specifying options