[RFA/NEWS] Mention new feature "Ada tasking support"

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Wed Oct 22 22:15:00 GMT 2008


> Fine, but then may I suggest
> 
>    info task N
>      Print detailed information about task number N.
> 
> (and similar change in "task TASK_NO")?

I like it! Checked in as attached.

Thanks, Eli.
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Joel
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--- NEWS	20 Oct 2008 16:18:59 -0000	1.291
+++ NEWS	22 Oct 2008 22:13:09 -0000
@@ -90,6 +90,20 @@ are treated as the standard definitions,
   GDB now has support for scripting using Python.  Whether this is
   available is determined at configure time.
 
+* Ada tasking support
+
+  Ada tasks can now be inspected in GDB. The following commands have
+  been introduced:
+
+    info tasks
+      Print the list of Ada tasks.
+    info task N
+      Print detailed information about task number N.
+    task
+      Print the task number of the current task.
+    task N
+      Switch the context of debugging to task number N.
+
 * New commands
 
 find [/size-char] [/max-count] start-address, end-address|+search-space-size,


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