Mention improvement for X86 general purpose registers.

2010-03-03  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
	    Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>

	* NEWS: Add X86 general purpose registers section.

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+2010-03-03  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+           Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+       * NEWS: Add X86 general purpose registers section.
+
 2010-03-03  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
 
        PR mi/11098:

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
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 *** Changes since GDB 7.1
 
+* X86 general purpose registers
+
+  GDB now supports reading/writing byte, word and double-word x86
+  general purpose registers directly.  This means you can use, say,
+  $ah or $ax to refer, respectively, to the byte register AH and
+  16-bit word register AX that are actually portions of the 32-bit
+  register EAX or 64-bit register RAX.
+
 * Python scripting
 
 The GDB Python API now has access to symbols, symbol tables, and