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Re: [PATCH] [DOC] Interrupt when program is stopped


On 01/11/2016 11:57 AM, Yao Qi wrote:
> This patch changes the document that interrupt (ctrl-c) is not ignored
> when the program is stopped.
> 
> When the interrupt was supported in remote target, people thought interrupt
> is meaningless when the program is stopped.  See
> 
>   https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2005-11/msg00349.html
>   https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2005-11/msg00307.html
> 
> recently we find it is hard to preserve this feature "ignore interrupt
> while program is stopped" when we fix some other bugs.  See
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-01/msg00039.html
> 
> so we think we can go to the simpler approach "not ignoring ctrl-c when
> program is stopped".  As a result, we tweak the documentation here.
> 
> gdb/doc:
> 
> 2016-01-11  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>
> 
> 	* gdb.texinfo (Interrupts): Update the document on handling
> 	interrupt when program is stopped.

LGTM.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


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