Re: Mention non-stop mode in NEWS.

Pedro Alves
2009-10-04T15:57:44Z

On Sunday 04 October 2009 16:51:25, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Non-stop mode isn't described in the NEWS yet.
>
> Okay for main trunk and branch?
>
> Very sorry for the delay in getting to this...
>

> + to implement the non-stop mode remote protocol extensions, as
> + described in "Remote Non-Stop" section. The GDB remote stub,

Bah, sorry, "section" of what?

Updated patch below.

--
Pedro Alves

2009-10-04 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>

* NEWS: Mention non-stop mode.

---
gdb/NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

Index: src/gdb/NEWS
===================================================================
--- src.orig/gdb/NEWS 2009-10-04 15:56:42.000000000 +0100
+++ src/gdb/NEWS 2009-10-04 16:56:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -232,6 +232,20 @@ Cell/B.E. debugging, you need to configu
powerpc-linux or powerpc64-linux and the spu-elf targets, using the
--enable-targets configure option.

+* Non-stop mode debugging.
+
+ For some targets, GDB supports an optional mode of operation in
+ which you can examine stopped threads while other threads continue
+ to execute freely. This is referred to as non-stop mode, with the
+ old mode referred to as all-stop mode. See the "Non-Stop Mode"
+ section in the user manual for more information.
+
+ To be able to support remote non-stop debugging, a remote stub needs
+ to implement the non-stop mode remote protocol extensions, as
+ described in "Remote Non-Stop" section of the user manual. The GDB
+ remote stub, gdbserver, has been adjusted to supports these
+ extensions on linux targets.
+
* New commands (for set/show, see "New options" below)

catch syscall [NAME(S) | NUMBER(S)]