[v2] Add a NEWS entry for multithreaded symbol loading
Commit Message
From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
Now that we enabled it by default, this change adds a NEWS entry for it.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2019-12-19 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
* NEWS: Mention that multithreaded symbol loading is now on by
default.
Change-Id: Ic344596a3b1b6e612a0071a50df49588b833c15d
---
gdb/NEWS | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
Comments
> From: cbiesinger@chromium.org
> Cc: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 06:59:35 +0100
>
> From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
>
> Now that we enabled it by default, this change adds a NEWS entry for it.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> 2019-12-19 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
>
> * NEWS: Mention that multithreaded symbol loading is now on by
> default.
OK, thanks.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 6:16 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: cbiesinger@chromium.org
> > Cc: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 06:59:35 +0100
> >
> > From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> >
> > Now that we enabled it by default, this change adds a NEWS entry for it.
> >
> > gdb/ChangeLog:
> >
> > 2019-12-19 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> >
> > * NEWS: Mention that multithreaded symbol loading is now on by
> > default.
>
> OK, thanks.
Thanks, pushed.
To ssh://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
8ce18f9cdf..8fb7532331 HEAD -> master
Christian
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
*** Changes since GDB 9
+* Multithreaded symbol loading has now been enabled by default on systems
+ that support it (see entry for GDB 9, below), providing faster
+ performance for programs with many symbols.
+
*** Changes in GDB 9
* 'thread-exited' event is now available in the annotations interface.