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* RFA: Update NEWS for watch -location
@ 2010-08-16 19:35 Tom Tromey
  2010-08-16 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tom Tromey @ 2010-08-16 19:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb-patches

I forgot to write a NEWS entry for the watch -location patch.

How's this?

Tom

2010-08-16  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>

	* NEWS: Mention watch -location.

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.397
diff -u -r1.397 NEWS
--- NEWS	3 Aug 2010 09:38:16 -0000	1.397
+++ NEWS	16 Aug 2010 19:34:46 -0000
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
   information and can be used to greatly speed up GDB startup and
   operation.  See the documentation for `save gdb-index' for details.
 
+* The "watch" command now accepts an optional "-location" argument.
+  When used, this causes gdb to watch the memory referred to by the
+  expression.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.2
 
 * Shared library support for remote targets by default

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* Re: RFA: Update NEWS for watch -location
  2010-08-16 19:35 RFA: Update NEWS for watch -location Tom Tromey
@ 2010-08-16 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2010-08-16 21:19   ` Tom Tromey
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2010-08-16 20:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Tromey; +Cc: gdb-patches

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:35:41 -0600
> 
> +* The "watch" command now accepts an optional "-location" argument.
> +  When used, this causes gdb to watch the memory referred to by the
                            ^^^
GDB

> +  expression.

I would add something like "Such a watchpoint is never deleted due to
it going out of scope."

Thanks.

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* Re: RFA: Update NEWS for watch -location
  2010-08-16 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2010-08-16 21:19   ` Tom Tromey
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tom Tromey @ 2010-08-16 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: gdb-patches

>> +* The "watch" command now accepts an optional "-location" argument.
>> +  When used, this causes gdb to watch the memory referred to by the
Eli>                             ^^^
Eli> GDB

>> +  expression.

Eli> I would add something like "Such a watchpoint is never deleted due to
Eli> it going out of scope."

I checked this in... but I forgot to s/gdb/GDB/, so I'll be doing a
second commit shortly.  Sorry about the noise.

Tom

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