Re: [RFA] enable software single step on alpha-osf

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>]

> Here is a patch to update the NEWS file,
> as suggested by Eli. I'm not very good at wording, so any suggestion for
> improvement is more than welcome.
> 
> 2002-08-17  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@gnat.com>
> 
>         * NEWS: Add an entry regarding the improvement of the next/step
>         operation on Alpha Tru64 multi-processor machines.

I am just realizing that I was probably not very clear... I am asking
for approval before I check this change in, in case the wording, or
maybe the way I organized this item in the NEWS file can be improved.

> Index: NEWS
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
> retrieving revision 1.86
> diff -c -3 -r1.86 NEWS
> *** NEWS	15 Aug 2002 22:51:40 -0000	1.86
> --- NEWS	17 Aug 2002 06:22:04 -0000
> ***************
> *** 91,96 ****
> --- 91,102 ----
>   to a bfd-format or binary file (dump and append), and back
>   from a file into memory (restore).
>   
> + * Improved "next/step" support on multi-processor Alpha Tru64.
> + 
> + On multi-processor Alpha Tru64, next/step operations sometimes used to
> + cause problems, such as the random apperance of SIGSEGV or SIGTRAP
> + signals for instance.
> + 
>   *** Changes in GDB 5.2.1:
>   
>   * New targets.

-- 
Joel