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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo | 7 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index bc67589..57a368d 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +Mon May 24 09:00:33 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com) + + * stabs.texinfo (Stabs Format): Misc fixes. + Sat May 22 10:40:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com) * stabs.texinfo (Constants): Allow an `e' constant to be non-enum. diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo index 32cbce1..8fda01b 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo @@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ deal more complex. The overall format is of the @code{"@var{string}"} field is: @example -"@var{name}@r{[}:@var{symbol_descriptor}@r{]} - @r{[}@var{type_number}@r{[}=@var{type_descriptor} @r{@dots{}]]}" +"@var{name}:@var{symbol-descriptor} @var{type-information}" @end example @var{name} is the name of the symbol represented by the stab. @@ -204,7 +203,9 @@ The overall format is of the @code{"@var{string}"} field is: object. For example, @samp{:t10=*2} defines type 10 as a pointer to type 2, but does not give the type a name. Omitting the @var{name} field is supported by AIX dbx and GDB after about version 4.8, but not -other debuggers. +other debuggers. GCC sometimes uses a single space as the name instead +of omitting the name altogether; apparently that is supported by most +debuggers. The @var{symbol_descriptor} following the @samp{:} is an alphabetic character that tells more specifically what kind of symbol the stab |