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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 5aa6e3d..4341038 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2009-10-04 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> + * NEWS: Mention non-stop mode. + +2009-10-04 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> + * gdbinit.in: Set data-directory to @srcdir@. 2009-10-02 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> @@ -232,6 +232,20 @@ Cell/B.E. debugging, you need to configure GDB to support both the powerpc-linux or powerpc64-linux and the spu-elf targets, using the --enable-targets configure option. +* Non-stop mode debugging. + + For some targets, GDB now supports an optional mode of operation in + which you can examine stopped threads while other threads continue + to execute freely. This is referred to as non-stop mode, with the + old mode referred to as all-stop mode. See the "Non-Stop Mode" + section in the user manual for more information. + + To be able to support remote non-stop debugging, a remote stub needs + to implement the non-stop mode remote protocol extensions, as + described in the "Remote Non-Stop" section of the user manual. The + GDB remote stub, gdbserver, has been adjusted to support these + extensions on linux targets. + * New commands (for set/show, see "New options" below) catch syscall [NAME(S) | NUMBER(S)] |