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authorElena Zannoni <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com>2002-10-23 23:28:17 +0000
committerElena Zannoni <ezannoni@kwikemart.cygnus.com>2002-10-23 23:28:17 +0000
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2002-10-23 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
* symtab.h: Update comment.
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 05d0fc9..2e2faeb 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-10-23 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
+
+ * symtab.h: Update comment.
+
2002-10-23 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
* printcmd.c (address_info): Restore quotes in output.
diff --git a/gdb/symtab.h b/gdb/symtab.h
index 941a7f1..6c18ccb 100644
--- a/gdb/symtab.h
+++ b/gdb/symtab.h
@@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ struct general_symbol_info
extern CORE_ADDR symbol_overlayed_address (CORE_ADDR, asection *);
+/* Note that all the following SYMBOL_* macros are used with the
+ SYMBOL argument being either a partial symbol, a minimal symbol or
+ a full symbol. All three types have a ginfo field. In particular
+ the SYMBOL_INIT_LANGUAGE_SPECIFIC, SYMBOL_INIT_DEMANGLED_NAME,
+ SYMBOL_DEMANGLED_NAME macros cannot be entirely substituted by
+ functions, unless the callers are changed to pass in the ginfo
+ field only, instead of the SYMBOL parameter. */
+
#define SYMBOL_NAME(symbol) (symbol)->ginfo.name
#define SYMBOL_VALUE(symbol) (symbol)->ginfo.value.ivalue
#define SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS(symbol) (symbol)->ginfo.value.address