* 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> 2010-12-09 Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
* mi/mi-parse.c (mi_parse): Wrong error message. * mi/mi-parse.c (mi_parse): Wrong error message.

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feature requires proper debuginfo support from the compiler; it feature requires proper debuginfo support from the compiler; it
was added to GCC 4.5. 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 * GDB now follows GCC's rules on accessing volatile objects when
reading or writing target state during expression evaluation. reading or writing target state during expression evaluation.
One notable difference to prior behavior is that "print x = 0" One notable difference to prior behavior is that "print x = 0"