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authorIan Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>1998-07-24 21:52:03 +0000
committerIan Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>1998-07-24 21:52:03 +0000
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* stabs.texinfo (Method Type Descriptor): Expand and correct.
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Jul 24 17:51:38 1998 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
+
+ * stabs.texinfo (Method Type Descriptor): Expand and correct.
+
Mon May 4 10:37:12 1998 Brian Youmans (3diff@gnu.org)
* refcard.tex: Copyright, address updates.
diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
index c3bf42a..a4f0bc9 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
@ifinfo
This document describes the stabs debugging symbol tables.
-Copyright 1992, 93, 94, 95, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 1992, 93, 94, 95, 97, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Contributed by Cygnus Support. Written by Julia Menapace, Jim Kingdon,
and David MacKenzie.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ regarded as a program in the language TeX).
@end tex
@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-Copyright @copyright{} 1992, 93, 94, 95, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1992, 93, 94, 95, 97, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Contributed by Cygnus Support.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
@@ -2690,16 +2690,21 @@ pointer.
@node Method Type Descriptor
@section The @samp{#} Type Descriptor
-This is like the @samp{f} type descriptor for functions (@pxref{Function
-Types}), except that a function which uses the @samp{#} type descriptor
-takes an extra argument as its first argument, for the @code{this}
-pointer. The @samp{#} type descriptor is optionally followed by the
-types of the arguments, then another @samp{#}. If the types of the
-arguments are omitted, so that the second @samp{#} immediately follows
-the @samp{#} which is the type descriptor, the arguments are being
-omitted (to save space) and can be deduced from the mangled name of the
-method. After the second @samp{#} there is type information for the
-return type of the method and a semicolon.
+This is used to describe a class method. This is a function which takes
+an extra argument as its first argument, for the @code{this} pointer.
+
+If the @samp{#} is immediately followed by another @samp{#}, the second
+one will be followed by the return type and a semicolon. The class and
+argument types are not specified, and must be determined by demangling
+the name of the method if it is available.
+
+Otherwise, the single @samp{#} is followed by the class type, a comma,
+the return type, a comma, and zero or more parameter types separated by
+commas. The list of arguments is terminated by a semicolon. In the
+debugging output generated by gcc, a final argument type of @code{void}
+indicates a method which does not take a variable number of arguments.
+If the final argument type of @code{void} does not appear, the method
+was declared with an ellipsis.
Note that although such a type will normally be used to describe fields
in structures, unions, or classes, for at least some versions of the