2012-02-24 Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>

* NEWS: Mention target-side conditional breakpoint support,
	new condition-evaluation breakpoint subcommand and remote
	packet extensions.
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2012-02-24 Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
* NEWS: Mention target-side conditional breakpoint support,
new condition-evaluation breakpoint subcommand and remote
packet extensions.
2012-02-24 Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
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Renesas RL78 rl78-*-elf
* GDBserver supports evaluation of breakpoint conditions. When
support is advertised by GDBserver, GDB may be told to send the
breakpoint conditions in bytecode form to GDBserver. GDBserver
will only report the breakpoint trigger to GDB when its condition
evaluates to true.
* New options
set breakpoint condition-evaluation
show breakpoint condition-evaluation
Controls whether breakpoint conditions are evaluated by GDB ("gdb") or by
GDBserver ("target").
This option can improve debugger efficiency depending on the speed of the
target.
* New remote packets
The z0/z1 breakpoint insertion packets have been extended to carry
a list of conditional expressions over to the remote stub depending on the
condition evaluation mode. The use of this extension can be controlled
via the "set remote conditional-breakpoints-packet" command.
*** Changes in GDB 7.4
* GDB now handles ambiguous linespecs more consistently; the existing