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diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 9619907..cfde65c 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2014-02-20 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> + + * gdb.texinfo (Files): Document "add-shared-symbol-files" + and "assf" as being deprecated. + (Cygwin Native): Likewise for "dll-symbols". + (Non-debug DLL Symbols): Remove reference to "dll-symbols" + as a way to force the loading of symbols from a DLL. + 2014-02-19 Siva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@google.com> * python.texi (Values From Inferior): Add description about the diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 7dc1564..de5ac63 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -16923,6 +16923,9 @@ For this command to work, you must have used @code{symbol-file} or @kindex assf @item add-shared-symbol-files @var{library-file} @itemx assf @var{library-file} +This command is deprecated and will be removed in future versions +of @value{GDBN}. Use the @code{sharedlibrary} command instead. + The @code{add-shared-symbol-files} command can currently be used only in the Cygwin build of @value{GDBN} on MS-Windows OS, where it is an alias for the @code{dll-symbols} command (@pxref{Cygwin Native}). @@ -19901,6 +19904,9 @@ This is a Cygwin-specific alias of @code{info shared}. @kindex dll-symbols @item dll-symbols +This command is deprecated and will be removed in future versions +of @value{GDBN}. Use the @code{sharedlibrary} command instead. + This command loads symbols from a dll similarly to add-sym command but without the need to specify a base address. @@ -19998,13 +20004,7 @@ describes working with such symbols, known internally to @value{GDBN} as Note that before the debugged program has started execution, no DLLs will have been loaded. The easiest way around this problem is simply to start the program --- either by setting a breakpoint or letting the -program run once to completion. It is also possible to force -@value{GDBN} to load a particular DLL before starting the executable --- -see the shared library information in @ref{Files}, or the -@code{dll-symbols} command in @ref{Cygwin Native}. Currently, -explicitly loading symbols from a DLL with no debugging information will -cause the symbol names to be duplicated in @value{GDBN}'s lookup table, -which may adversely affect symbol lookup performance. +program run once to completion. @subsubsection DLL Name Prefixes |