From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:24:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: gdb/
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	* NEWS: Document the PIE support.
---

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 4e3445fc993..13f6a90848c 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-01-14  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+	    Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Document the PIE support.
+
 2010-01-14  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 
 	* linux-tdep.c: Remove includes gdbcore.h, observer.h and elf-bfd.h.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 657d0a2db2a..17d64fba928 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -189,6 +189,11 @@ much more reliable. In particular:
   - GDB is now able to backtrace through the signal handler for
     non-threaded programs.
 
+PIE (Position Independent Executable) programs debugging is now supported.
+This includes debugging execution of PIC (Position Independent Code) shared
+libraries although for that, it should be possible to run such libraries as an
+executable program.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.0
 
 * GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation.  Applications that