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[5.3] Mention shlib/thread improvement
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:31:02 -0500
- Subject: [5.3] Mention shlib/thread improvement
FYI,
Committed to 5.3, committing to branch.
Andrew
2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library
patch.
Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.90.6.1
diff -u -r1.90.6.1 NEWS
--- NEWS 5 Sep 2002 12:12:55 -0000 1.90.6.1
+++ NEWS 3 Dec 2002 19:27:05 -0000
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
*** 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