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1 Wed Feb 23 10:44:18 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@rtl.cygnus.com)
2
3 * stabs.texinfo: Document N_RBRAC as function relative for COFF as
4 well as for ELF and SOM. Unify the descriptions of ELF and SOM
5 as "stabs in sections" rather than just saying "ELF and SOM".
6 Also make that stuff apply to COFF.
7
8 Fri Feb 18 08:25:58 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
9
10 * gdb.texinfo (Formatting Documentation): Change GhostScript to
11 Ghostscript.
12
13 Fri Feb 4 06:31:31 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
14
15 * gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): When talking about "step"
16 versus functions without line numbers, also mention stepping into
17 them as well as "step" when you are in them. Tell the user how to
18 deal with the situation. Add comment about "debugging information".
19
20 Thu Feb 3 11:39:59 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
21
22 * stabs.texinfo (Enumerations): Document restriction on where
23 enumeration types can appear and still win with GDB.
24
25 Wed Feb 2 11:29:17 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
26
27 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Document format for type
28 -16.
29
30 Thu Jan 27 16:53:56 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
31
32 * gdb.texinfo (Selection, Frame Info): Update information about
33 arbitrary frame specficiations.
34
35 Wed Jan 26 15:31:57 1994 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
36
37 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: general editing pass prior to Net release
38
39 Tue Jan 25 12:12:04 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
40
41 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Discuss continuing stabs with ?.
42
43 Wed Jan 19 06:39:24 1994 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
44
45 * stabs.texinfo (Non-Stab Symbol Types): Mention N_SET* | N_EXT.
46
47 Sun Jan 16 12:43:32 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
48
49 * stabs.texinfo: Re-do stuff about C_BSTAT and move from XCOFF
50 Differences node to Statics node.
51 (Statics): Discuss XCOFF use of V symbol descriptor.
52
53 * Makefile.in: Remove refcard.dvi and GDBvn.texi in realclean,
54 not clean.
55
56 Wed Jan 12 21:29:54 1994 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
57
58 * gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Document `set print
59 fast-symbolic-addr' and improve the doc for some other
60 `set print's.
61
62 Mon Jan 3 17:23:07 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
63
64 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Talk about defining several type
65 numbers at once.
66 Fix lint regarding changing node ELF Transformations to
67 ELF and SOM Transformations.
68
69 Fri Dec 31 00:42:43 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
70
71 * stabs.texinfo: Insert Peter Kessler's name as inventor (I think).
72
73 Tue Dec 28 09:30:40 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
74
75 * stabs.texinfo (Cross-References): `::' is for nested types only
76 within <>.
77 (Structures): Document static members.
78
79 Mon Dec 27 13:55:04 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
80
81 * stabs.texinfo: Document S type attribute.
82
83 Sun Dec 26 20:46:36 1993 Jeffrey A. Law (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)
84
85 * stabs.texinfo: Add notes about stabs-in-som where appropriate.
86
87 Fri Dec 3 19:13:19 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
88
89 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix a few typos.
90
91 Sun Nov 28 18:06:25 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
92
93 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: formatting improvements
94
95 * gdb.texinfo (New Features): mention threads.
96 (Summary, C): fix xrefs in newly contributed text.
97 (Threads): index entries, clarifications, example
98 (passim): minor typos fixed, phrasing improvements
99
100 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): rephrase text on ^C and add index
101 entries; (Server): explain use of gdbserver w/real-time systems,
102 add example of conflicting TCP port; (MIPS Remote) break up
103 running text into table, highlighting commands, and add example.
104
105 Wed Nov 24 14:15:56 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
106
107 * refcard.tex: avoid bad linebreaks even when REFEDITS=psrc.sed
108
109 Fri Nov 12 16:10:58 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
110
111 * stabs.texinfo (Nested Symbols): New node.
112 (String Field, Symbol Descriptors, Cross-References): Refer to it.
113
114 Thu Nov 11 13:26:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
115
116 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs in ELF): Clarify how Bbss.bss work with respect
117 to picking which Bbss.bss symbol to use, and (because there seems to
118 be no good way of doing it) re-write some of the text to make it
119 sound like Bbss.bss isn't such a great idea after all (as currently
120 designed).
121
122 * gdb.texinfo (C): In addition to saying people have to use g++ for
123 good results, say they have to use stabs. Specifically say cfront
124 doesn't work well.
125 (Summary): Merge in information on Modula-2, Pascal, and Chill from
126 the gdb README. Add xrefs to places where the support for the various
127 languages is described in detail.
128
129 Mon Nov 8 11:47:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
130
131 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up stuff about visibility and virtual
132 characters.
133
134 * stabs.texinfo (N_M2C): Cite Sun doc.
135
136 Fri Nov 5 16:27:27 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
137
138 * gdb.texinfo: updates re threads.
139 * remote.texinfo: avoid index entries starting with digits.
140
141 Tue Nov 2 09:08:37 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
142
143 * stabs.texinfo (Enumerations): Talk about large, negative and
144 octal values. Clean up cross reference to type attributes.
145 (String Field): Say that GDB 4.11 supports size attribute.
146
147 Sun Oct 31 13:31:10 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
148
149 * remote.texi (VxWorks Remote): Clarify that rebuilding VxWorks kernel
150 is a mandatory step. Make the stuff about that more concise.
151
152 Wed Oct 27 00:25:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
153
154 * stabs.texinfo (Class Names): New node.
155
156 * gdb.texinfo (Command Files): Explain order of init file reading.
157
158 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Talk about getting the serial driver
159 to deal with ^C sent by gdb to stop the remote system.
160
161 Mon Oct 25 03:25:41 1993 Tom Lord (lord@cygnus.com)
162
163 * libgdb.texinfo (I/O): incorporated better phrasing from rich.
164
165 * libgdb.texinfo (Defining Commands): made the DOC arg
166 to gdb_define_app_command a char * instead of char **
167 per a suggestion from kingdon.
168
169 * libgdb.texinfo: total rewrite from a different starting
170 premise.
171
172 Wed Oct 20 18:07:44 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
173
174 * stabs.texinfo (Local Variable Parameters): Re-write paragraph on
175 floats passed as doubles (to improve clarity).
176
177 Tue Oct 19 14:21:18 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
178
179 * gdb.texinfo (Source Path): index entries for $cwd, $pdir
180
181 * a4rc.sed: update to work with Andreas Vogel papersize params
182
183 * refcard.tex: use Andreas Vogel simplifications of papersize
184 params; remove useless version info; update copyright date.
185
186 Tue Oct 19 10:46:22 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
187
188 * gdb.texinfo (Symbols): Add class NAME to doc for ptype.
189
190 Tue Oct 12 09:11:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
191
192 * gdb.texinfo (Files): Say what address the load command loads it at.
193
194 * stabs.texinfo (Common Blocks): Minor cleanups.
195
196 * stabs.texinfo: Update ld stabs in elf relocation to reflect the fact
197 that Sun has backed away from the linker kludge and thus the relevant
198 issue is changes to the SunPRO tools, not the Solaris linker.
199
200 * stabs.texinfo (Traditional Integer Types): Clean up description
201 of octal bounds a little bit. Document extra leading zeroes.
202
203 Thu Oct 7 16:15:37 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
204
205 * gdb.texinfo (Signaling): Update for symbolic symbol names
206 and add a section explaining the difference between the GDB
207 signal command and the shell kill utility.
208
209 Wed Oct 6 13:23:01 1993 Tom Lord (lord@rtl.cygnus.com)
210
211 * libgdb.texinfo: added `@' to braces that were unescaped.
212
213 Mon Oct 4 10:42:18 1993 Tom Lord (lord@rtl.cygnus.com)
214
215 * libgdb.texinfo: new file. Spec for the gdb library.
216
217 Sun Oct 3 15:26:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
218
219 * stabs.texinfo (Include Files): Fix typo (start -> end).
220
221 Thu Sep 30 18:24:56 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
222
223 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: assorted small improvements, mostly
224 from Melissa at FSF's editing pass.
225
226 Thu Sep 30 11:54:38 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
227
228 * gdb.texinfo: Remove stuff about ar and 14 character filenames.
229 I believe this was fixed by the 13 Sep 89 change to print_frame_info.
230 Also, modern versions of ar like BSD 4.4 or SVR4 don't have this bug.
231
232 Wed Sep 22 21:22:11 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
233
234 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Discuss 386 call gates.
235
236 Sat Sep 18 17:10:44 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@poseidon.cygnus.com)
237
238 * stabs.texinfo (Based Variables): New node.
239
240 Thu Sep 16 17:48:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cirdan.cygnus.com)
241
242 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Re-write discussions of
243 names, sizes, and formats to suggest how not to lose.
244
245 Sat Sep 11 09:35:11 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@poseidon.cygnus.com)
246
247 * stabs.texinfo (Methods): Fix typo.
248
249 Fri Sep 10 06:34:20 1993 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
250
251 * gdb.texinfo: Fix a few typos.
252
253 Wed Sep 8 09:11:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
254
255 * gdb.texinfo: Clarify how well it works with Fortran.
256
257 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF, Statics, ELF Transformations):
258 More on relocating stabs in ELF files.
259
260 Tue Sep 7 13:45:02 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
261
262 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF): Talk about N_FUN value.
263
264 Mon Sep 6 19:23:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
265
266 * stabs.texinfo (Local Variable Parameters): Talk about nameless
267 parameters on VAX.
268
269 Fri Sep 3 17:06:08 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
270
271 * gdb.texinfo: @up/@down -> @raisesections/@lowersections
272
273 Fri Sep 3 12:04:15 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
274
275 * stabs.texinfo: Make info author notice match the TeX author notice.
276
277 Tue Aug 31 13:21:06 1993 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
278
279 * stabs.texinfo: Initial-caps all words in node names and
280 non-trivial words in section names.
281
282 Mon Aug 30 11:13:16 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
283
284 * stabs.texinfo: Many minor cleanups.
285
286 * stabs.texinfo: Remove @deffn except from Expanded Reference node.
287
288 Sat Aug 28 12:08:09 1993 David J. MacKenzie (djm@edison.eng.umd.edu)
289
290 * stabs.texinfo: Remove full description of big example.
291 It's not really helpful; just use pieces of it where appropriate.
292 Add more Texinfo formatting directives (@samp, etc.).
293 Use @deffn to define stab types.
294 Eliminate some wordiness. Break up some nodes.
295 Add an (alphabetized) index of symbol types.
296 Use consistent capitalization style in node and section names.
297
298 Thu Aug 26 06:36:31 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@deneb.cygnus.com)
299
300 * gdb.texinfo: Change typo "Two two" to "The two".
301
302 Sun Aug 22 12:15:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
303
304 * stabs.texinfo (XCOFF-differences): Remove references to
305 non-existent types N_DECL and N_RPSYM.
306
307 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Say that type attributes bug is
308 fixed in GDB 4.10, since it is.
309
310 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up djm cleanups, and more cleanups of my own.
311
312 Sat Aug 21 04:32:28 1993 David MacKenzie (djm@cygnus.com)
313
314 * stabs.texinfo: Formatting cleanups.
315
316 Fri Aug 20 20:49:53 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
317
318 * stabs.texinfo: When explaining the n_type of a stab, standardize
319 how we do it ('#' as a comment indicator, "36 is N_FUN" as text,
320 no tabs, use @r).
321 (Global Variables): Clean up.
322
323 Tue Aug 17 15:57:27 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
324
325 * stabs.texinfo (Stack Variables): Re-write.
326
327 Mon Aug 16 21:20:08 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
328
329 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs-in-elf): Talk about getting the start
330 addresses of a source file. Also revise formatting.
331 Change "object module" or "object file" to "source file".
332 Various: Miscellaneous cleanups.
333
334 Thu Aug 12 15:11:51 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
335
336 * stabs.texinfo: Point to mangling info in gcc's gpcompare.texi.
337
338 Tue Aug 10 16:57:49 1993 Stan Shebs (shebs@rtl.cygnus.com)
339
340 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed many nonsensical machine-collected
341 host and target conditionals, described some of the remainder.
342
343 Tue Aug 10 13:28:30 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
344
345 * gdbint.texinfo (Getting Started): Use @itemize, not @table.
346
347 * gdbint.texinfo (Top): Add name to @top line, and re-write the
348 paragraph which follows.
349
350 * gdbint.texinfo (Host): Use @code not @samp for Makefile
351 variables. Looks better and avoids overful hbox.
352
353 Fri Jul 30 18:26:21 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
354
355 * stabs.texinfo (Procedures): Improve stuff on nested functions.
356
357 Thu Jul 29 15:10:58 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
358
359 * remote.texi: (MIPS Remote) clearer doc for set/show timeout,
360 retransmit-timeout
361
362 Thu Jul 29 13:16:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
363
364 * gdbint.texinfo: Update statement about `some ancient Unix
365 systems, like Ultrix 4.0' to Ultrix 4.2.
366
367 Wed Jul 28 15:26:53 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@el_bosque.cygnus.com)
368
369 * h8-cfg.texi, all-cfg.texi: new flag GDBSERVER
370
371 * Makefile.in: depend on remote.texi rather than gdbinv-s.texi
372
373 * remote.texi: (Server) New node on gdbserver. (Remote Serial,
374 ST2000 Remote, MIPS Remote): mention `host:port' syntax for TCP.
375
376 * remote.texi: new name for former gdbinv-s.texi
377
378 * gdb.texinfo: use remote.texi rather than gdbinv-s.texi
379
380 Wed Jul 28 08:26:24 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
381
382 * gdbinv-s.texi: Documented timeout and retransmit-timeout
383 variables for MIPS remote debugging protocol.
384
385 Mon Jul 26 13:00:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
386
387 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): FORTRAN LOGICAL fix.
388
389 Tue Jul 20 16:30:41 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@deneb.cygnus.com)
390
391 * Makefile.in (refcard.dvi): Use srcdir where necessary.
392
393 Mon Jul 19 12:02:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@cygnus.com)
394
395 * gdb.texinfo: repair conditional bugs in text markup
396
397 Fri Jul 16 18:57:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
398
399 * gdb.texinfo, all-cfg.texi, h8-cfg.texi: introduce MOD2 switch
400 to select Modula-2 material.
401
402 Thu Jul 15 13:15:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
403
404 * stabs.texinfo: Cleanups regarding statics.
405
406 * gdbinv-s.texi (Bootstrapping): Document exceptionHandler.
407 (Debug Session): Mention exceptionHandler. Add xref to Bootstrapping.
408
409 Mon Jul 12 13:37:02 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
410
411 * stabs.texinfo: N_MAIN is sometimes used for C.
412
413 Fri Jul 9 09:47:02 1993 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
414
415 * gdbint.texinfo (Host, Target Conditionals): Remove TM_FILE_OVERRIDE.
416
417 Tue Jul 6 12:41:28 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
418
419 * gdbint.texinfo (Target Conditionals): Remove NO_TYPEDEFS,
420 removed from the code by Kingdon.
421
422 Tue Jul 6 12:24:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
423
424 * gdb.texinfo (Break Commands): Remove stuff about flushing terminal
425 input when evaluating breakpoint conditions; the bug has been fixed.
426
427 * gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): Argument to "continue"
428 sets the ignore count to N-1, not to N.
429
430 Thu Jul 1 14:57:42 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
431
432 * refcard.tex (\hoffset): correct longstanding error to match
433 intended offset; avoids cutting off edge on some printers
434
435 Wed Jun 30 18:23:06 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
436
437 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Say that order of stabs is significant.
438
439 Fri Jun 25 21:34:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
440
441 * stabs.texinfo (Common Blocks): Say what Sun FORTRAN does.
442
443 Fri Jun 25 16:15:10 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
444
445 * Makefile.in: (REFEDITS) new var to control whether PS or CM
446 fonts and whether US or A4 paper for GDB refcard; (refcard.dvi)
447 collect sed edits if any, apply to refcard before formatting;
448 (refcard.ps) stop implying PS fonts if PS output requested;
449 (lrefcard.ps) delete extra target for variant PS fonts
450
451 * refcard.tex: parametrize papersize dependent info, collect
452 in easily replaced spot
453
454 * a4rc.sed: new file, edits to refcard for A4 paper
455
456 Fri Jun 25 14:21:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
457
458 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Type -16 is 4 bytes.
459
460 Wed Jun 23 15:02:50 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
461
462 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Minor character cleanups.
463
464 Tue Jun 22 16:31:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
465
466 * stabs.texinfo: Express disapproval of 'D' symbol descriptor
467 politely rather than rudely.
468
469 Fri Jun 18 19:42:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
470
471 * stabs.texinfo: Document common blocks.
472
473 Fri Jun 18 12:12:57 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
474
475 * stabs.texinfo: Add some basic info about stabs-in-elf.
476
477 Fri Jun 18 13:57:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
478
479 * stabs.texinfo (Top): Minor cleanup.
480
481 Mon Jun 14 16:16:51 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at rtl.cygnus.com)
482
483 * Makefile.in (install-info): remove parentdir support
484
485 Tue Jun 15 18:11:39 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
486
487 * gdb.texinfo (Copying): delete this node and references to it;
488 RMS says this manual need not carry GPL. (passim): Improvements
489 from last round at FSF, largely due to Ian Taylor review, and
490 minor formatting improvements.
491
492 * gdbinv-s.texi (passim): Improvements from last round at FSF,
493 largely due to Ian Taylor review. (Debug Session): minor edits to
494 new text.
495
496 Sun Jun 13 12:52:39 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
497
498 * Makefile.in (realclean): Remove info and dvi files too.
499
500 Sat Jun 12 16:09:22 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
501
502 * {all,h8}-config.texi: Rename to *-cfg.texi for 14 char filenames.
503 * Makefile.in: Change accordingly. gdb-config.texi -> gdb-cfg.texi.
504 * gdb.texinfo: Change accordingly.
505
506 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up N_{L,R}BRAC. Discuss what addresses of
507 N_{L,R}BRAC,N_SLINE are relative to.
508
509 Fri Jun 11 15:15:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
510
511 * Makefile.in (GDBvn.texi): Update atomically.
512
513 Wed Jun 9 10:58:16 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
514
515 * gdbinv-s.texi (Debug Session): Document exceptionHook.
516
517 Tue Jun 8 13:42:04 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
518
519 * gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Move all stuff relating to symbolic
520 addresses together. Also motivate the set print symbol-filename
521 command and suggest other solutions.
522
523 Tue Jun 1 22:46:43 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
524
525 * gdb.texinfo (set print elements): Note that the number of
526 elements is set to unlimited by "set print elements 0".
527
528 Mon May 31 08:06:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
529
530 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Try to clarify what
531 NF_LDOUBLE means.
532 (Stab Types): Include Solaris stab types.
533 (Procedures): Document Solaris extensions.
534
535 Thu May 27 06:20:42 1993 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
536
537 * gdb.texinfo: Add `set print symbol-filename' doc.
538
539 Wed May 26 00:26:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
540
541 * stabs.texinfo (Arrays): Talk about type definition vs. type
542 information.
543
544 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting
545 the trailing semicolon.
546
547 Tue May 25 14:49:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
548
549 * stabs.texinfo (Line Numbers, Source Files): Re-write these two nodes
550 and merge in other parts of the document addressing these subjects.
551 gdbint.texinfo (XCOFF): Remove info which is now in stabs.texinfo.
552
553 * stabs.texinfo (Subranges, Arrays): Try to explain about the semicolon
554 at the end of a range type.
555
556 * stabs.texinfo (Subranges): "A offset" and "T offset" are not
557 AIX extensions.
558
559 Mon May 24 09:00:33 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
560
561 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs Format): Misc fixes.
562
563 Sat May 22 10:40:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
564
565 * stabs.texinfo (Constants): Allow an `e' constant to be non-enum.
566 (Traditional builtin types): Document convex convention for long long.
567 (Negative builtin types): Discuss type names, and misc fixes.
568
569 Fri May 21 11:20:31 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
570
571 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Document the floating
572 point types used with @samp{R} type descriptor.
573 (Symbol Descriptors): Describe how to handle conflict between
574 different meanings of @samp{P} symbol descriptor.
575
576 Thu May 20 13:35:10 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
577
578 * stabs.texinfo: Remove node Quick Reference and put its children
579 directly under the main menu.
580
581 * stabs.texinfo: Many more changes to bring it into line with
582 AIX documentation and reality. I think it now has all the
583 information from the AIX documentation, except that I burned
584 out when I got to variant records (Pascal and Modula-2) and
585 all the COBOL types. Oh well, we can add them later when we're
586 worrying more about those languages.
587
588 * stabs.texinfo (Automatic variables): Talk about what it means
589 to omit the symbol descriptor.
590
591 Tue May 18 17:59:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
592
593 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Add "(sometimes)" when describing
594 gcc2 behavior with promoted args.
595
596 Fri May 14 21:35:29 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
597
598 * gdb.texinfo: include readline appendices in info version of manual
599
600 Fri May 7 11:56:18 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
601
602 * gdbinv-s.texi (Remote Serial): describe new ^C behavior in
603 target remote.
604
605 * gdb.texinfo (Machine Code): more index entries for disassemble
606
607 Fri May 7 10:12:30 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
608
609 * Clarify the intended use of the gdb-testers and gdb-patches
610 mailing lists, and shrink gzip comment.
611
612 Thu May 6 16:39:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
613
614 * gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): do not mention SHELL env var in
615 DOSHOST configuration of manual.
616
617 * gdb.texinfo (MIPS Stack): new node.
618
619 * all-config.texi (MIPS) new switch.
620
621 * gdbinv-s.texi (Nindy Options) Remove two instances of future
622 tense; (MIPS Remote) new node.
623
624 * gdb.texinfo (passim) rephrases to work around makeinfo @value
625 bug; (Environment) less passive, other small cleanups in text about
626 .cshrc/.bashrc; (Invoking GDB) new MIPS Remote menu entry;
627 (Remote) new MIPS Remote menu entry.
628
629 Thu Apr 29 09:36:25 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
630
631 * stabs.texinfo: Many changes to include information from the
632 AIX documentation.
633
634 * gdb.texinfo (Environment): Mention pitfall with .cshrc.
635
636 Tue Apr 27 14:02:57 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
637
638 * gdbint.texinfo (new node Debugging GDB, elsewhere):
639 Move a bunch of information from ../README.
640 (Getting Started): New node.
641
642 Fri Apr 23 17:21:13 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
643
644 * gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo: include Hitachi SH target
645
646 * gdb.texinfo: advance manual revision dates to present
647
648 * gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo, all-config.texi, h8-config.texi:
649 stop using silly Roman numerals in @set variable names
650
651 Fri Apr 23 07:30:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
652
653 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Keep trying to get this right.
654
655 Wed Apr 21 15:18:47 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
656
657 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): More on "local parameters".
658
659 Mon Apr 19 08:00:51 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
660
661 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Re-do "local parameters" section.
662
663 Sun Apr 18 09:47:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
664
665 * stabs.texinfo (Symbol descriptors): Re-do using @table and @xref.
666 (Parameters): Rewrite.
667 (xcoff-differences, Sun-differences): Minor changes.
668
669 Thu Apr 15 02:35:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cacophony.cygnus.com)
670
671 * stabs.texinfo: Minor cleanup.
672
673 Wed Apr 14 17:31:00 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
674
675 * gdbint.texinfo: Minor xcoff stuff.
676
677 Wed Apr 7 14:11:07 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
678
679 * gdbint.texinfo: Update for new config directory structure.
680 Add info about internal type data structures.
681
682 Mon Apr 5 09:06:30 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
683
684 * Makefile.in (SFILES_INCLUDED): gdb-config.texi is no longer in
685 $(srcdir).
686 (gdb-config.texi): Depend on file in $(srcdir).
687
688 Fri Apr 2 16:55:13 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
689
690 * stabs.texinfo: Fixes about N_SO.
691
692 Fri Mar 26 18:00:35 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
693
694 * gdb.texinfo: include list of nonstandard init file names
695
696 * *-config.texi: new switch GENERIC for text that applies *only*
697 to (usual) multiple-target version of manual
698
699 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: Update conditional markup to correct
700 h8 config
701
702 * gdb.texinfo: depend on latest fixed makeinfo, use conditionals
703 in menus (rather than conditionally selected multiple alternative
704 menus).
705
706 * Makefile.in: define and use DOC_CONFIG var to select
707 configuration for GDB user manual.
708
709 * gdb-config.texi: delete from repository, generate from Makefile.
710
711 * all-config.texi: normal `generic' configuration file, formerly
712 stored as gdb-config.texi
713
714 Wed Mar 24 14:03:19 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at poseidon.cygnus.com)
715
716 * Makefile.in: add dvi target to build all .dvi files
717
718 Tue Mar 23 16:03:24 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
719
720 * gdb.texinfo, gdvinv-s.texinfo: formatting improvements.
721
722 Fri Mar 19 21:46:50 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
723
724 * gdbint.texinfo: Doc NO_MMALLOC and NO_MMALLOC_CHECK as
725 host conditionals.
726 * stabs.texinfo: More array fixes inspired by Jim's.
727
728 Fri Mar 19 10:23:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
729
730 * stabs.texinfo: Fixes re arrays and continuations.
731
732 * gdbint.texinfo: Add XCOFF node.
733
734 Mon Mar 8 15:52:18 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
735
736 * gdb.texinfo: Add `set print max-symbolic-offset' doc.
737
738 Sun Feb 21 17:09:38 1993 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
739
740 * stabs.texinfo: Fix for array types to mention lower bounds.
741
742 Thu Feb 18 01:19:49 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
743
744 * gdbint.texinfo: Update PTRACE_ARG3_TYPE doc, pull PT_*.
745
746 Wed Feb 17 08:15:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
747
748 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE from target defines.
749
750 Thu Feb 11 10:38:40 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
751
752 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix thinko (NM_FILE => NAT_FILE). Found
753 by Michael Ben-Gershon <mybg@CS.HUJI.AC.IL>.
754
755 Wed Feb 10 23:59:19 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
756
757 * gdbint.texinfo: Eliminate IBM6000_HOST, document IBM6000_TARGET.
758
759 Tue Feb 9 18:26:21 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
760
761 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: misc updates
762
763 Sat Feb 6 10:25:47 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
764
765 * gdbint.texinfo: Brief documentation for longjmp support,
766 from an email msg by Stu.
767
768 Fri Feb 5 14:10:15 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
769
770 * stabs.texinfo: Fix description of floating point "range"
771 types (which really define basic types). Reported by Jim Meehan,
772 <meehan@src.dec.com>.
773
774 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove COFF_NO_LONG_FILE_NAMES define, now gone.
775
776 Thu Feb 4 13:56:46 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
777
778 * gdbint.texinfo: Slightly expand section on supporting a new
779 object file format.
780
781 Thu Feb 4 01:49:04 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
782
783 * Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Remove psref.tex
784 intermediate file.
785
786 Tue Feb 2 12:18:06 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
787
788 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: miscellaneous stylistic cleanups
789
790 Mon Feb 1 15:35:47 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
791
792 * gdbinv-s.texi: z8000 simulator target name is just "sim"
793
794 * gdbinv-s.texi: Mention that Z8000 simulator can simulate Z8001
795 as well as Z8002.
796
797 Sat Nov 28 06:51:35 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
798
799 * gdbint.texinfo: Add sections on clean design and on how to send
800 in changes.
801
802 Mon Nov 9 23:57:02 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
803
804 * gdbint.texinfo: Add how to declare the result of make_cleanup.
805
806 Mon Oct 26 11:09:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
807
808 * gdb.texinfo: Fix typo, reported by Karl Berry.
809
810 Fri Oct 23 00:41:21 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
811
812 * gdb.texinfo: Add opcodes dir to GDB distribution description.
813
814 Sat Oct 10 18:04:58 1992 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at cirdan.cygnus.com)
815
816 * gdbint.texinfo: fixed a stray email address (needs @@),
817 added @table @code to node "Native Conditionals"
818
819 Tue Sep 22 00:34:15 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
820
821 * gdbint.texinfo: Describe coding style of GDB.
822
823 Mon Sep 21 19:32:16 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
824
825 * stabs.texinfo: Minor wording changes.
826
827 Tue Sep 15 02:57:09 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
828
829 * gdbint.texinfo: Improve release doc slightly.
830
831 Fri Sep 11 01:34:25 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@sphagnum.cygnus.com)
832
833 * gdbint.texinfo: Improve doc of GDB config macros.
834
835 Wed Sep 9 16:52:06 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
836
837 * stabs.texinfo: Remove Bothner's changes for C++ nested types.
838 These will be reinserted when examined.
839
840 Mon Aug 24 01:17:55 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
841
842 * gdbint.texinfo: Make a start at documenting all the #if macros
843 in GDB. At least list them all, and start separating them into
844 host-specific and target-specific.
845
846 Tue Aug 18 15:59:13 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
847
848 * gdbinv-s.m4.in: refrain from using @cartouche for just a few
849 examples (not consistent w others).
850 gdb.texinfo: issue disclaimer paragraph on cmdline options only
851 for generic vn of doc
852
853 Tue Aug 18 14:53:27 1992 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
854
855 * Makefile.in: always create installation directories.
856
857 Tue Aug 18 14:11:50 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
858
859 * gdb.texinfo: in h8 config, do not describe searching commands.
860
861 Mon Aug 17 18:07:59 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
862
863 * gdb.texinfo, none.m4, h8.m4, gdbinv-s.m4.in: improve H8/300
864 conditionals; introduce a few generic switches that may be
865 useful for other cross-dev or dos-hosted configs.
866
867 * gdb.texinfo: fix typo in "info reg" description
868
869 Sun Aug 16 01:16:18 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
870
871 * stabs.texinfo: Minor updates from running TeX over it.
872 * Makefile.in (stabs.dvi, stabs.ps): Add.
873
874 Sat Aug 15 20:52:24 1992 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
875
876 * stabs.texinfo: Stabs documentation, written by Julia Menapace.
877 First pass at converting it to texinfo.
878
879 Sat Aug 15 03:14:59 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
880
881 * gdb.texinfo, refcard.tex: Document mult args on `info reg'.
882 * Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Add missing $(srdir).
883
884 Fri Aug 14 21:08:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
885
886 * gdbint.texinfo: Add section on partial symbol tables.
887
888 Sat Jun 20 16:31:10 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
889
890 * gdb.texinfo: document `set remotedebug' and `set
891 rstack_high_address'.
892
893 Thu May 14 17:09:48 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
894
895 * gdb.texinfo: slight expansion of new text on reading info files
896 * gdbinv-s.m4.in: correct and expand info on cross-debugging
897 H8/300 from DOS.
898
899 Tue May 12 12:22:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
900
901 * gdb.texinfo: `info user' => `show user'. Noticed by David Taylor.
902
903 Mon May 11 19:06:27 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
904
905 * gdb.texinfo: Say how to read the `info' files.
906
907 Tue May 5 12:11:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
908
909 * Makefile.in: gm4 -> m4.
910
911 Fri Apr 10 17:50:43 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at rtl.cygnus.com)
912
913 * gdb.texinfo: Update for GDB-4.5. Move `Formatting
914 Documentation' ahead of `Installing GDB' to match README.
915 Update shared library doc, -readnow and -mapped, and directory
916 structure (add glob and mmalloc). Update configure doc.
917
918 Tue Mar 24 23:28:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
919
920 * Makefile.in: remove $(srcdir) from gdb.info rule.
921
922 Sat Mar 7 18:44:50 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@rtl.cygnus.com)
923
924 * Makefile.in: commented out gdb-all.texinfo rule. This is
925 temporary.
926
927 Wed Feb 26 18:04:40 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
928
929 * Makefile.in, configure.in: removed traces of namesubdir,
930 -subdirs, $(subdir), $(unsubdir), some rcs triggers. Forced
931 copyrights to '92, changed some from Cygnus to FSF.
932
933 Fri Dec 13 09:47:31 1991 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
934
935 * gdb.texinfo: Improve how we ask for bug reports.
936
937 Tue Dec 10 04:07:21 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
938
939 * Makefile.in: infodir belongs in datadir.
940
941 Fri Dec 6 23:57:34 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
942
943 * Makefile.in: remove spaces following hyphens, bsd make can't
944 cope. install using INSTALL_DATA. added clean-info. added
945 standards.text support.
946
947 Thu Dec 5 22:46:12 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
948
949 * Makefile.in: idestdir and ddestdir go away. Added copyrights
950 and shift gpl to v2. Added ChangeLog if it didn't exist. docdir
951 and mandir now keyed off datadir by default.
952
953 \f
954 Local Variables:
955 mode: indented-text
956 left-margin: 8
957 fill-column: 74
958 version-control: never
959 End: