[RFA] enable software single step on alpha-osf

[Andrew Cagney]

>> Here is a patch to update the NEWS file,
>> as suggested by Eli. I'm not very good at wording, so any suggestion for
>> improvement is more than welcome.
>> 
>> 2002-08-17  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@gnat.com>
>> 
>>         * NEWS: Add an entry regarding the improvement of the next/step
>>         operation on Alpha Tru64 multi-processor machines.
> 
> 
> I am just realizing that I was probably not very clear... I am asking
> for approval before I check this change in, in case the wording, or
> maybe the way I organized this item in the NEWS file can be improved.

No one maintains the NEWS file.  If you get no comments after a few 
days, it's likely probably ok.

Andrew


>> Index: NEWS
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
>> retrieving revision 1.86
>> diff -c -3 -r1.86 NEWS
>> *** NEWS	15 Aug 2002 22:51:40 -0000	1.86
>> --- NEWS	17 Aug 2002 06:22:04 -0000
>> ***************
>> *** 91,96 ****
>> --- 91,102 ----
>>   to a bfd-format or binary file (dump and append), and back
>>   from a file into memory (restore).
>>   
>> + * Improved "next/step" support on multi-processor Alpha Tru64.
>> + 
>> + On multi-processor Alpha Tru64, next/step operations sometimes used to
>> + cause problems, such as the random apperance of SIGSEGV or SIGTRAP
>> + signals for instance.
>> + 
>>   *** Changes in GDB 5.2.1:
>>   
>>   * New targets.
> 
> 
> -- Joel