From: Andrew Cagney Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:29:50 +0000 (+0000) Subject: 2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney X-Git-Tag: gdb_5_3-2002-12-12-release~16 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6b2ef49ddff108555fbea862a40a6557572983a;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git 2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney * NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library patch. --- diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 2bec3aba1af..20ee0b43bd5 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney + * NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library + patch. * PROBLEMS: Mention PR gdb/725. 2002-12-02 Andrew Cagney diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index 83d35e356b5..c28203c38ce 100644 --- 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