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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 0e9fd44..52ead12 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -8427,8 +8427,14 @@ performance, because it reduces the overhead of the remote protocol by bundling memory reads and writes into large chunks. Unfortunately, simply caching everything would lead to incorrect results, since @value{GDBN} does not necessarily know anything about volatile values, memory-mapped I/O -addresses, etc. Therefore, by default, @value{GDBN} only caches data -known to be on the stack. Other regions of memory can be explicitly marked +addresses, etc. Furthermore, in non-stop mode (@pxref{Non-Stop Mode}) +memory can be changed @emph{while} a gdb command is executing. +Therefore, by default, @value{GDBN} only caches data +known to be on the stack@footnote{In non-stop mode, it is moderately +rare for a running thread to modify the stack of a stopped thread +in a way that would interfere with a backtrace, and caching of +stack reads provides a significant speed up of remote backtraces.}. +Other regions of memory can be explicitly marked as cacheable; see @pxref{Memory Region Attributes}. @table @code |