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authorJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1994-01-03 22:30:19 +0000
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* stabs.texinfo (String Field): Talk about defining several type
numbers at once. Fix lint regarding changing node ELF Transformations to ELF and SOM Transformations.
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2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index f6cbe0e..f07e385 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Mon Jan 3 17:23:07 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+
+ * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Talk about defining several type
+ numbers at once.
+ Fix lint regarding changing node ELF Transformations to
+ ELF and SOM Transformations.
+
Fri Dec 31 00:42:43 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Insert Peter Kessler's name as inventor (I think).
diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
index dd8db29..64cf47d9 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
@@ -226,7 +226,9 @@ reference, referring directly to a type that has already been defined.
The @samp{@var{type-number}=} form is a type definition, where the
number represents a new type which is about to be defined. The type
definition may refer to other types by number, and those type numbers
-may be followed by @samp{=} and nested definitions.
+may be followed by @samp{=} and nested definitions. Also, the Lucid
+compiler will repeat @samp{@var{type-number}=} more than once if it
+wants to define several type numbers at once.
In a type definition, if the character that follows the equals sign is
non-numeric then it is a @var{type-descriptor}, and tells what kind of
@@ -2135,7 +2137,7 @@ relocatable address and the linker turns it into an absolute address.
@menu
* Transformations On Static Variables::
* Transformations On Global Variables::
-* ELF Transformations:: In ELF, things are a bit different.
+* ELF and SOM Transformations:: In ELF, things are a bit different.
@end menu
@node Transformations On Static Variables
@@ -3885,7 +3887,7 @@ correctly without having to touch the stabs section. They are named
@code{Bbss.bss} for the bss section, @code{Ddata.data} for the data
section, and @code{Drodata.rodata} for the rodata section. For the text
section, there is no such symbol (but there should be, see below). For
-an example of how these symbols work, @xref{ELF Transformations}. GCC
+an example of how these symbols work, @xref{ELF and SOM Transformations}. GCC
does not provide these symbols; it instead relies on the stabs getting
relocated. Thus addresses which would normally be relative to
@code{Bbss.bss}, etc., are already relocated. The Sun linker provided