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| author | John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus> | 1993-02-06 03:58:50 +0000 |
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| committer | John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus> | 1993-02-06 03:58:50 +0000 |
| commit | 831c2e1d35cab58170813c951a19b5fe9c608797 (patch) | |
| tree | 3400decc3758445ec454fa111cb58adabda011c5 | |
| parent | 931bf12a0994139dc6a258e4d1d365965d14e70a (diff) | |
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* stabs.texinfo: Fix description of floating point "range"
types (which really define basic types). Reported by Jim Meehan,
<meehan@src.dec.com>.
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo | 15 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index ff77488..c0464b2 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ Fri Feb 5 14:10:15 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com) + * stabs.texinfo: Fix description of floating point "range" + types (which really define basic types). Reported by Jim Meehan, + <meehan@src.dec.com>. + * gdbint.texinfo: Remove COFF_NO_LONG_FILE_NAMES define, now gone. Thu Feb 4 13:56:46 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com) diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo index 526d856..eb5f477 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ represents the procedure itself. The @code{N_LBRAC} uses the @menu * Basic types:: Basic type definitions * Range types:: Range types defined by min and max value -* Bit-ranges:: Range type defined by number of bits +* Float "range" types:: Range type defined by size in bytes @end menu @node Basic types @@ -529,17 +529,20 @@ range of type @code{int}, with a minimum value of 0 and a maximum of 65535. 13 .stabs "short unsigned int:t8=r1;0;65535;",128,0,0,0 @end example -@node Bit-ranges -@section Range type defined by number of bits +@node Float "range" types +@section Range type defined by size in bytes @table @strong @item Type Descriptor: @code{r} @end table -In a range definition, if the number after the second semicolon is 0, -then the number after the first semicolon is the number of bits needed -to represent the type. +In a range definition, if the first number after the semicolon is +positive and the second is zero, then the type being defined is a +floating point type, and the number after the first semicolon is the +number of bytes needed to represent the type. Note that this does not +provide a way to distinguish 8-byte real floating point types from +8-byte complex floating point types. @example .stabs "@var{name}: |