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authorJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1993-09-30 17:01:45 +0000
committerJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1993-09-30 17:01:45 +0000
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* gdb.texinfo: Remove stuff about ar and 14 character filenames.
I believe this was fixed by the 13 Sep 89 change to print_frame_info. Also, modern versions of ar like BSD 4.4 or SVR4 don't have this bug.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo16
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 0de4733..7d7f8c3 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Thu Sep 30 11:54:38 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+
+ * gdb.texinfo: Remove stuff about ar and 14 character filenames.
+ I believe this was fixed by the 13 Sep 89 change to print_frame_info.
+ Also, modern versions of ar like BSD 4.4 or SVR4 don't have this bug.
+
Wed Sep 22 21:22:11 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Discuss 386 call gates.
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 2817e50..4fad9a3 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -1409,22 +1409,6 @@ Older versions of the GNU C compiler permitted a variant option
@w{@samp{-gg}} for debugging information. @value{GDBN} no longer supports this
format; if your GNU C compiler has this option, do not use it.
-@ignore
-@comment As far as I know, there are no cases in which @value{GDBN} will
-@comment produce strange output in this case. (but no promises).
-If your program includes archives made with the @code{ar} program, and
-if the object files used as input to @code{ar} were compiled without the
-@samp{-g} option and have names longer than 15 characters, @value{GDBN} will get
-confused reading your program's symbol table. No error message will be
-given, but @value{GDBN} may behave strangely. The reason for this problem is a
-deficiency in the Unix archive file format, which cannot represent file
-names longer than 15 characters.
-
-To avoid this problem, compile the archive members with the @samp{-g}
-option or use shorter file names. Alternatively, use a version of GNU
-@code{ar} dated more recently than August 1989.
-@end ignore
-
@need 2000
@node Starting
@section Starting your program