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authorDaniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>2008-05-01 18:50:14 +0000
committerDaniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>2008-05-01 18:50:14 +0000
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2008-05-01 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> Based on work by Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> and Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>. * NEWS: Mention attach to stopped process fix. * infcmd.c (detach_command, disconnect_command): Discard the thread list. * infrun.c (handle_inferior_event): Do not ignore non-SIGSTOP while attaching. Use signal_stop_state. (signal_stop_state): Check stop_soon. * linux-nat.c (kill_lwp): Declare earlier. (pid_is_stopped, linux_nat_post_attach_wait): New. (lin_lwp_attach_lwp): Use linux_nat_post_attach_wait. Update comments. (linux_nat_attach): Use linux_nat_post_attach_wait. (detach_callback, linux_nat_detach): Improve handling for signalled processes. (linux_nat_pid_to_str): Always print out the LWP ID if it differs from the process ID. * Makefile.in (infcmd.o): Update. 2008-05-01 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> * gdb.threads/attach-into-signal.c, gdb.threads/attach-into-signal.exp, gdb.threads/attach-stopped.c, gdb.threads/attach-stopped.exp, gdb.threads/attachstop-mt.c, gdb.threads/attachstop-mt.exp: New.
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*** Changes since GDB 6.8
* GDB now supports multiple function calling conventions according to the
- DWARF-2 DW_AT_calling_convention function attribute.
+DWARF-2 DW_AT_calling_convention function attribute.
* The SH target utilizes the aforementioned change to distinguish between gcc
- and Renesas calling convention. It also adds the new CLI commands
- `set/show sh calling-convention'.
+and Renesas calling convention. It also adds the new CLI commands
+`set/show sh calling-convention'.
* GDB can now read compressed debug sections, as produced by GNU gold
with the --compress-debug-sections=zlib flag.
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ which will be allocated using malloc later in program execution.
* The qXfer:libraries:read remote procotol packet now allows passing a
list of section offsets.
+* On GNU/Linux, GDB can now attach to stopped processes. Several race
+conditions handling signals delivered during attach or thread creation
+have also been fixed.
+
* New features in the GDB remote stub, gdbserver
- The "--wrapper" command-line argument tells gdbserver to use a