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authorDaniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>2006-11-17 17:48:41 +0000
committerDaniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>2006-11-17 17:48:41 +0000
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* NEWS: Mention QPassSignals.
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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ broken in GDB 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5.
* Support for GNU/Linux Thread Local Storage (TLS, per-thread variables) no
longer requires symbolic debug information (e.g. DWARF-2).
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now has lower overhead for high
+frequency signals (e.g. SIGALRM) via the QPassSignals packet.
+
* New commands
set substitute-path
@@ -59,6 +62,10 @@ qXfer:auxv:read:
Fetch an OS auxilliary vector from the remote stub. This packet is a
more efficient replacement for qPart:auxv:read.
+QPassSignals:
+ Ignore the specified signals; pass them directly to the debugged program
+ without stopping other threads or reporting them to GDB.
+
* Removed remote packets
qPart:auxv:read: