From 46248966cc79678ea2abe9a3ea5a38caeba07581 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Cagney Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:32:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney * NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library patch. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 3 +++ gdb/NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 7ea894c..799d012 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney + * NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library + patch. + * PROBLEMS: Mention PR gdb/725. 2002-12-03 Andreas Schwab diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index 0ba805d..f9feaf0 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ The GNU Source-Level Debugger''. *** 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 -- 2.7.4