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RFA: another NEWS update


This updates NEWS to list all the Python API improvements since 7.0.

Ok?

Tom

2010-02-17  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>

	* NEWS: Add Python API Improvements section.

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.354
diff -u -r1.354 NEWS
--- NEWS	17 Feb 2010 20:08:24 -0000	1.354
+++ NEWS	17 Feb 2010 20:34:05 -0000
@@ -210,6 +210,20 @@
    off, but this introduces a slight performance penalty.  The default
    is on.
 
+* Python API Improvements
+
+  ** GDB provides the new class gdb.LazyString.  This is useful in
+     some pretty-printing cases.  The new method gdb.Value.lazy_string
+     provides a simple way to create objects of this type.
+
+  ** The fields returned by gdb.Type.fields now have an
+     `is_base_class' attribute.
+
+  ** The new method gdb.Type.range returns the range of an array type.
+
+  ** The new method gdb.parse_and_eval can be used to parse and
+     evaluate an expression.
+
 * New remote packets
 
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