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* gdb.texinfo (Signals): Clarify the default setting of signal 

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2001-06-13 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
* gdb.texinfo (Signals): Clarify the default setting of signal
handling.
2001-05-14 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
* gdbint.texinfo (CLEAR_DEFERRED_STORES): Delete stray @item

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@ -3454,8 +3454,9 @@ program. You can tell @value{GDBN} in advance what to do for each kind of
signal.
@cindex handling signals
Normally, @value{GDBN} is set up to ignore non-erroneous signals like @code{SIGALRM}
(so as not to interfere with their role in the functioning of your program)
Normally, @value{GDBN} is set up to let the non-erroneous signals like
@code{SIGALRM} be silently passed to your program
(so as not to interfere with their role in the program's functioning)
but to stop your program immediately whenever an error signal happens.
You can change these settings with the @code{handle} command.
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@item handle @var{signal} @var{keywords}@dots{}
Change the way @value{GDBN} handles signal @var{signal}. @var{signal}
can be the number of a signal or its name (with or without the
@samp{SIG} at the beginning); a list of signal numberss of the form
@samp{SIG} at the beginning); a list of signal numbers of the form
@samp{@var{low}-@var{high}}; or the word @samp{all}, meaning all the
known signals. The @var{keywords} say what change to make.
@end table
@ -3519,6 +3520,11 @@ after @value{GDBN} reports a signal, you can use the @code{handle}
command with @code{pass} or @code{nopass} to control whether your
program sees that signal when you continue.
The default is set to @code{nostop}, @code{noprint}, @code{pass} for
non-erroneous signals such as @code{SIGALRM}, @code{SIGWINCH} and
@code{SIGCHLD}, and to @code{stop}, @code{print}, @code{pass} for the
erroneous signals.
You can also use the @code{signal} command to prevent your program from
seeing a signal, or cause it to see a signal it normally would not see,
or to give it any signal at any time. For example, if your program stopped