From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24568 invoked by alias); 21 Aug 2002 02:14:46 -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 24561 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2002 02:14:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Aug 2002 02:14:46 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17hL16-00068U-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:14:40 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17hL1h-0004iz-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:15:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:14:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] enable software single step on alpha-osf Message-ID: <20020821021517.GA17955@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <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> <20020820155522.GH25997@gnat.com> <3D62DEDE.4070809@ges.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D62DEDE.4070809@ges.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00649.txt.bz2 On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 08:29:18PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >>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. > > No one maintains the NEWS file. If you get no comments after a few > days, it's likely probably ok. > > Andrew > > > >>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. > >>+ If I may suggest... * Improved "next/step" support on multi-processor Alpha Tru64. The previous single-step mechanism could cause unpredictable problems, including the random appearance of SIGSEGV or SIGTRAP signals. The use of a software single-step mechanism prevents this. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer