Add a NEWS entry for multithreaded symbol loading

Now that we enabled it by default, this change adds a NEWS entry for it.

gdb/ChangeLog:

2019-12-26  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>

	* NEWS: Mention that multithreaded symbol loading is now on by
	default.

Change-Id: Ic344596a3b1b6e612a0071a50df49588b833c15d

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 66a7b9b4b80c5e7f5645919f60367281df18320a..293ec52f9cccf86881522c87b196e5698368d3f0 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-12-26  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>
+
+       * NEWS: Mention that multithreaded symbol loading is now on by
+       default.
+
 2019-12-26  Ruslan Kabatsayev  <b7.10110111@gmail.com>
 
        * dwarf2read.c (is_valid_DW_AT_defaulted)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index ee10914fd870696288e3e6b75bbbbc86fa2b35de..f51a989fef18eb80f39857f7064ffbbc0719ec5d 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 
 *** Changes since GDB 9
 
+* Multithreaded symbol loading has now been enabled by default on systems
+  that support it (see entry for GDB 9, below), providing faster
+  performance for programs with many symbols.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 9
 
 * 'thread-exited' event is now available in the annotations interface.