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| author | Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> | 2002-01-31 03:57:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> | 2002-01-31 03:57:42 +0000 |
| commit | 1a70374818c962c98ac3e43f516887abc87fc6b6 (patch) | |
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2002-01-30 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Mention "set trust-readonly-sections" command.
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index e98fb87..30e160e 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ 2002-01-30 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com> - * NEWS: Mention generate-core-file command. + * NEWS: Mention "set trust-readonly-sections" command. + Mention generate-core-file command. 2002-01-15 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com> @@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ *** Changes since GDB 5.1: +* New command "set trust-readonly-sections on[off]". + +This command is a hint that tells gdb that read-only sections +really are read-only (ie. that their contents will not change). +In this mode, gdb will go to the object file rather than the +target to read memory from read-only sections (such as ".text"). +This can be a significant performance improvement on some +(notably embedded) targets. + * New command "generate-core-file" (or "gcore"). This new gdb command allows the user to drop a core file of the |