From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 100062 invoked by alias); 8 Jun 2017 02:40:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 99881 invoked by uid 89); 8 Jun 2017 02:40:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-11.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,GIT_PATCH_3,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 02:40:44 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dInNO-00016n-Em for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:40:47 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37221) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dInNF-0000zP-MK; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:40:37 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4669 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dInNE-00035W-Sq; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:40:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 02:40:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83d1af8an1.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Stafford Horne CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, shorne@gmail.com In-reply-to: <0c4f5b59a645a64535e7c8bb0f34b03df805f4e4.1496871270.git.shorne@gmail.com> (message from Stafford Horne on Thu, 8 Jun 2017 07:15:47 +0900) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tdesc: handle arbitrary strings in tdesc_register_in_reggroup_p Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <0c4f5b59a645a64535e7c8bb0f34b03df805f4e4.1496871270.git.shorne@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00194.txt.bz2 > From: Stafford Horne > Cc: Stafford Horne > Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 07:15:47 +0900 > > --- a/gdb/NEWS > +++ b/gdb/NEWS > @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ > > *** Changes since GDB 8.0 > > +* GDB now supports dynamically creating arbitrary register groups specified > + in xml target descriptors. This allows for finer grain grouping of > + registers on systems with a large amount of registers. > + I'm confused: in the commentary for the patch to the manual you said the feature existed, but wasn't documented. So why is it mentioned in NEWS as a new feature? Should we have more documentation changes, if it's new? Thanks.