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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 7ea894c..799d012 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com> + * NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library + patch. + * PROBLEMS: Mention PR gdb/725. 2002-12-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> @@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ The GNU Source-Level Debugger''. *** 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 |