[RFA,5/8] Announce in NEWS 'frame apply', faas, taas, tfaas commands and -FLAGS... arg for thread apply
Commit Message
Announce the user visible changes in NEWS:
'frame apply', faas, taas, tfaas commands and -FLAGS... arg for thread apply.
---
gdb/NEWS | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
Comments
> From: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
> Cc: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 13:06:48 +0200
>
> Announce the user visible changes in NEWS:
> 'frame apply', faas, taas, tfaas commands and -FLAGS... arg for thread apply.
> ---
> gdb/NEWS | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
This part is OK, thanks.
@@ -14,6 +14,24 @@
* New commands
+frame apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT] [-FLAGS...] COMMAND
+ Apply a command to a number of frames.
+ The FLAGS allows 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'.
+
set debug fbsd-nat
show debug fbsd-nat
Control display of debugging info regarding the FreeBSD native target.
@@ -27,6 +45,13 @@ set|show record btrace cpu
Controls the processor to be used for enabling errata workarounds for
branch trace decode.
+* Changed commands
+
+thread apply [all | COUNT | -COUNT] [-FLAGS...] COMMAND
+ The 'thread apply' command accepts a new argument FLAGS.
+ The FLAGS allows to control what output to produce and how to handle errors
+ raised when applying COMMAND to a frame.
+
* Python API
** Type alignment is now exposed via the "align" attribute of a gdb.Type.