From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Mention signal fixes in NEWS Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:33:00 -0000 Message-id: <40A3BF84.2070203@gnu.org> References: <40A27605.70805@gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-05/msg00408.html +Many generic problems with GDB's signal handling code have been fixed. +These include: support for sigaltstack and sigaction; I'd prefer that we spell out what this ``support for sigaltstack and sigaction'' means, in user-level terms. That is, what exactly didn't work before and now does, when sigaltstack and sigaction are involved? ... include: backtraces through non-contigious stacks (see sigaltstack(2)); recognition of sa_sigaction signal trampolines (see sigaction(2)); ... +Note that kernel and architecture specific limitations may still +restrict this functionality (ref PR gdb/1639). How about being more explicit here? What configurations have this new support, and which don't? Can we list at least the more popular platforms in each category? That gets complicated. Since some features only work on specific patched kernels. However we can probably safely state that the features do work on ``i386 GNU/Linux systems that include a 2.4 kernel''. Andrew