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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 6fcf81d..44077d0 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2012-12-23 Pierre Muller <muller@sourceware.org> + + * gdbint.texinfo (Function prototypes): Require use of "extern" + modifier for function prototypes in headers. + 2012-12-19 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> * refcard.tex: Update copyright notice to GPL v3 or later. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo index bb7e5e5..945431d 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo @@ -5935,7 +5935,8 @@ argument type and name, with the name matching that used in the actual function definition. All external functions should have a declaration in a header file that -callers include, except for @code{_initialize_*} functions, which must +callers include, that declaration should use the @code{extern} modifier. +The only exception concerns @code{_initialize_*} functions, which must be external so that @file{init.c} construction works, but shouldn't be visible to random source files. |