From 46248966cc79678ea2abe9a3ea5a38caeba07581 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Cagney Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:32:10 +0000 Subject: 2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney * NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library patch. --- gdb/NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'gdb/NEWS') diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index 0ba805d..f9feaf0 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -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 -- cgit v1.1