From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23030 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2002 15:55:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23003 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2002 15:55:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (205.232.38.247) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2002 15:55:20 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id AFE49D2CBD; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:55:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:55:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] enable software single step on alpha-osf Message-ID: <20020820155522.GH25997@gnat.com> References: <20020718203205.GB26990@gnat.com> <3D4DBBC8.5000906@ges.redhat.com> <20020805184920.GC892@gnat.com> <3D5D323A.2030801@ges.redhat.com> <20020816182141.GJ906@gnat.com> <20020816230524.GT906@gnat.com> <3D5D875F.6050405@ges.redhat.com> <20020817005803.GH911@gnat.com> <3D5DA592.8090009@ges.redhat.com> <20020817062921.GY906@gnat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020817062921.GY906@gnat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00587.txt.bz2 > 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 > > * 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