From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12924 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2009 15:57:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 12911 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Oct 2009 15:57:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:57:39 +0000 Received: (qmail 28852 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2009 15:57:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 4 Oct 2009 15:57:35 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Mention non-stop mode in NEWS. Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:57:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" References: <200910041651.26172.pedro@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200910041651.26172.pedro@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910041657.47252.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00097.txt.bz2 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 * 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)]