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[NEWS] Mention signal info inspection support
- From: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 23:39:21 +0000
- Subject: [NEWS] Mention signal info inspection support
Eli, does this look OK?
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Pedro Alves
2009-02-06 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
* NEWS: Mention inspecting extra signal information, $_siginfo,
and the qXfer:siginfo:read and qXfer:siginfo:write packets.
---
gdb/NEWS | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
Index: src/gdb/NEWS
===================================================================
--- src.orig/gdb/NEWS 2009-02-06 23:13:17.000000000 +0000
+++ src/gdb/NEWS 2009-02-06 23:28:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ completions will be "f1" and "f2".
operators when expanding macros. It also supports variable-arity
macros.
+* GDB now supports inspecting extra signal information, exported by
+ the new $_siginfo convenience variable. The feature is currently
+ implemented on linux ARM, i386 and amd64.
+
* New remote packets
qSearch:memory:
@@ -39,6 +43,10 @@ QStartNoAckMode
qXfer:osdata:read
Obtains additional operating system information
+qXfer:siginfo:read
+qXfer:siginfo:write
+ Read or write additional signal information.
+
* Removed remote protocol undocumented extension
An undocumented extension to the remote protocol's `S' stop reply