From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:15:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	* NEWS: Mention watch -location.
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	* NEWS: Mention watch -location.
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index a800d84a390..129eed5ec46 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-08-16  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Mention watch -location.
+
 2010-08-16  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 
 	* breakpoint.c (update_watchpoint): Add source empty line.  Prefer
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 73f79a51aa5..e4bb48ba539 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
   information and can be used to greatly speed up GDB startup and
   operation.  See the documentation for `save gdb-index' for details.
 
+* The "watch" command now accepts an optional "-location" argument.
+  When used, this causes gdb to watch the memory referred to by the
+  expression.  Such a watchpoint is never deleted due to it going out
+  of scope.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.2
 
 * Shared library support for remote targets by default