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[5.3] Mention shlib/thread improvement


FYI,

Committed to 5.3, committing to branch.

Andrew
2002-12-03  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@redhat.com>

	* NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library
	patch.

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.90.6.1
diff -u -r1.90.6.1 NEWS
--- NEWS	5 Sep 2002 12:12:55 -0000	1.90.6.1
+++ NEWS	3 Dec 2002 19:27:05 -0000
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 
 *** Changes in GDB 5.3:
 
+* GNU/Linux shared library multi-threaded performance improved.
+
+When debugging a multi-threaded application on GNU/Linux, GDB now uses
+`/proc', in preference to `ptrace' for memory reads.  This may result
+in an improvement in the start-up time of multi-threaded, shared
+library applications when run under GDB.  One GDB user writes: ``loads
+shared libs like mad''.
+
 * ``gdbserver'' now supports multi-threaded applications on some targets
 
 Support for debugging multi-threaded applications which use  

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