From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 20:49:31 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: NEWS item for --enable-systemtap
X-Git-Tag: glibc-2.16-tps~154
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b44a2df27f8389ded73e013a54f96640338dec6;p=thirdparty%2Fglibc.git

NEWS item for --enable-systemtap
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 761e36ae60a..6f8469742be 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ Version 2.16
   defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
 
 * New locales: mag_IN
+
+* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
+  into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
+  So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
+  provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
+  Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
 
 Version 2.15