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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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-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--gdb/NEWS2
-rw-r--r--gdb/doc/ChangeLog5
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index c116482..e76a369 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-08-21 Paul N. Hilfinger <hilfinger@adacore.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Amplify last entry on boolean types in Ada.
+
2008-08-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
* dwarf2read.c (die_specification, dwarf2_extension, follow_die_ref):
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 6fa145b..7278056 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ conditions handling signals delivered during attach or thread creation
have also been fixed.
* GDB now supports the use of DWARF boolean types for Ada's type Boolean.
+From the user's standpoint, all unqualified instances of True and False
+are treated as the standard definitions, regardless of context.
* New features in the GDB remote stub, gdbserver
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index b4aea40..7e83770 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+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
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 22b4e76..6760b71 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -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