* NEWS: Mention QPassSignals.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index de804991a27baeacaf9b1bf10904c7bff2100482..6712d8c891bc85c450d878c28c03cc015b9d31e9 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-11-17  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
+
+       * NEWS: Mention QPassSignals.
+
 2006-11-16  Maxim Grigoriev  <maxim2405@gmail.com>
 
        * MAINTAINERS (Responsible Maintainers): Add myself for Xtensa.

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index a8d16117c1c97a4f115c72503ba1d65dab20e169..0dd3790f91b9d6da33a5a83c01b3c949491767af 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ broken in GDB 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5.
 * Support for GNU/Linux Thread Local Storage (TLS, per-thread variables) no
 longer requires symbolic debug information (e.g. DWARF-2).
 
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now has lower overhead for high 
+frequency signals (e.g. SIGALRM) via the QPassSignals packet.
+
 * New commands
 
 set substitute-path
@@ -59,6 +62,10 @@ qXfer:auxv:read:
   Fetch an OS auxilliary vector from the remote stub.  This packet is a
   more efficient replacement for qPart:auxv:read.
 
+QPassSignals:
+  Ignore the specified signals; pass them directly to the debugged program
+  without stopping other threads or reporting them to GDB.
+
 * Removed remote packets
 
 qPart:auxv:read: