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authorPaul N. Hilfinger <hilfinger@adacore.com>2008-08-21 09:05:32 +0000
committerPaul N. Hilfinger <hilfinger@adacore.com>2008-08-21 09:05:32 +0000
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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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+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
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@@ -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