* NEWS: Document exception-handling change.

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2010-12-10 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Document exception-handling change.
2010-12-09 Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
* mi/mi-parse.c (mi_parse): Wrong error message.

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feature requires proper debuginfo support from the compiler; it
was added to GCC 4.5.
** The motion commands "next", "finish", "until", and "advance" now
work better when exceptions are thrown. In particular, GDB will
no longer lose control of the inferior; instead, the GDB will
stop the inferior at the point at which the exception is caught.
This functionality requires a change in the exception handling
code that was introduced in GCC 4.5.
* GDB now follows GCC's rules on accessing volatile objects when
reading or writing target state during expression evaluation.
One notable difference to prior behavior is that "print x = 0"