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| author | Paul N. Hilfinger <hilfinger@adacore.com> | 2008-08-21 09:05:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul N. Hilfinger <hilfinger@adacore.com> | 2008-08-21 09:05:32 +0000 |
| commit | 158c766541afd260122f57a0288775fcddc2e67a (patch) | |
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| parent | 1e52a9c18720a7b3e9c0c53ca2ac228a9d3d1508 (diff) | |
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Amplify last NEWS entry about boolean types in Ada, and add
corresponding description of treatment of True and false to gdb.texinfo.
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index c116482..e76a369 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2008-08-21 Paul N. Hilfinger <hilfinger@adacore.com> + + * NEWS: Amplify last entry on boolean types in Ada. + 2008-08-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> * dwarf2read.c (die_specification, dwarf2_extension, follow_die_ref): @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ conditions handling signals delivered during attach or thread creation have also been fixed. * GDB now supports the use of DWARF boolean types for Ada's type Boolean. +From the user's standpoint, all unqualified instances of True and False +are treated as the standard definitions, regardless of context. * New features in the GDB remote stub, gdbserver diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index b4aea40..7e83770 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2008-08-21 Paul N. Hilfinger <hilfinger@adacore.com> + + * gdb.texinfo (Omissions from Ada): Describe new treatment of True + and False. + 2008-08-20 Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> * gdb.textinfo (GDB/MI Miscellaneous Commands): Use @table diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 22b4e76..6760b71 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -11218,6 +11218,14 @@ formats are not supported. @item It is not possible to slice a packed array. + +@item +The names @code{True} and @code{False}, when not part of a qualified name, +are interpreted as if implicitly prefixed by @code{Standard}, regardless of +context. +Should your program +redefine these names in a package or procedure (at best a dubious practice), +you will have to use fully qualified names to access their new definitions. @end itemize @node Additions to Ada |