2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>

	* NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library
	patch.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
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--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2002-12-03  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@redhat.com>
 
+       * NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library
+       patch.
        * PROBLEMS: Mention PR gdb/725.
 
 2002-12-02  Andrew Cagney  <ac131313@redhat.com>

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 83d35e356b5fb4cf3c6c8fcd7431ab99f69fd52e..c28203c38ce54d398e8c7bb8cf1eeb682e2f5638 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 
 *** Changes in GDB 5.3:
 
+* GNU/Linux shared library multi-threaded performance improved.
+
+When debugging a multi-threaded application on GNU/Linux, GDB now uses
+`/proc', in preference to `ptrace' for memory reads.  This may result
+in an improvement in the start-up time of multi-threaded, shared
+library applications when run under GDB.  One GDB user writes: ``loads
+shared libs like mad''.
+
 * ``gdbserver'' now supports multi-threaded applications on some targets
 
 Support for debugging multi-threaded applications which use