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| author | Jim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com> | 1993-06-26 03:25:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com> | 1993-06-26 03:25:03 +0000 |
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revisions to just-checked-in stuff re common blocks
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo index 515ef97..2c3c1af 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo @@ -956,8 +956,11 @@ which gives the address of the common block. Then each stab between the @code{N_BCOMM} and the @code{N_ECOMM} specifies a member of that common block; its value is the offset within the common block of that variable. The @code{N_ECOML} stab type is documented for this purpose, but Sun's -@sc{fortran} compiler uses @code{N_GSYM} instead, with the @samp{V} -symbol descriptor. +@sc{fortran} compiler uses @code{N_GSYM} instead. The test case I +looked at had a common block local to a function and it used the +@samp{V} symbol descriptor; I assume one would use @samp{S} if not local +to a function (that is, if a common block @emph{can} be anything other +than local to a function). @node Initialized statics @section Initialized static variables |