[RFA/NEWS] Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port.

[RFA/NEWS] Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port.

[Joel Brobecker]

Hello,

As promised, here is a patch that documents relatively precisely
the improvements made to date to the mips-irix port.  I added this
entry to the "Bug fixes" subsection for the "since 7.0" section...

gdb/ChangeLog:

        * NEWS: Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port.

OK to commit?

Thanks,
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Joel

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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
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@@ -166,6 +166,24 @@ qTfP, qTsP
 
 Process record now works correctly with hardware watchpoints.
 
+Multiple bug fixes have been made to the mips-irix port, making it
+much more reliable. In particular:
+  - Debugging threaded applications is now possible again.  Previously,
+    GDB would hang while starting the program, or while waiting for
+    the program to stop at a breakpoint.
+  - Attaching to a running process no longer hangs.
+  - An error occurring while loading a core file has been fixed.
+  - Changing the value of the PC register now works again.  This fixes
+    problems observed when using the "jump" command, or when calling
+    a function from GDB, or even when assigning a new value to $pc.
+  - With the "finish" and "return" commands, the return value for functions
+    returning a small array is now correctly printed.
+  - It is now possible to break on shared library code which gets executed
+    during a shared library init phase (code executed while executing
+    their .init section).  Previously, the breakpoint would have no effect.
+  - GDB is now able to backtrace through the signal handler for
+    non-threaded programs.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.0
 
 * GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation.  Applications that
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Re: [RFA/NEWS] Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Date: Sat,  9 Jan 2010 18:55:33 +0400
> 
> As promised, here is a patch that documents relatively precisely
> the improvements made to date to the mips-irix port.  I added this
> entry to the "Bug fixes" subsection for the "since 7.0" section...
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
>         * NEWS: Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port.
> 
> OK to commit?

Yes, thanks.

Re: [RFA/NEWS] Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port.

[Joel Brobecker]

> > gdb/ChangeLog:
> > 
> >         * NEWS: Document the improvements made to the mips-irix port.
> 
> Yes, thanks.

Thanks! Checked in.

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Joel