From: Andrew Cagney Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:32:10 +0000 (+0000) Subject: 2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=46248966cc79678ea2abe9a3ea5a38caeba07581;p=binutils-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 7ea894c086c..799d012decf 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 0ba805d88d5..f9feaf095ba 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