1 Wed Feb 23 10:44:18 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@rtl.cygnus.com)
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.
8 Fri Feb 18 08:25:58 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
10 * gdb.texinfo (Formatting Documentation): Change GhostScript to
13 Fri Feb 4 06:31:31 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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".
20 Thu Feb 3 11:39:59 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
22 * stabs.texinfo (Enumerations): Document restriction on where
23 enumeration types can appear and still win with GDB.
25 Wed Feb 2 11:29:17 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
27 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Document format for type
30 Thu Jan 27 16:53:56 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
32 * gdb.texinfo (Selection, Frame Info): Update information about
33 arbitrary frame specficiations.
35 Wed Jan 26 15:31:57 1994 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
37 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: general editing pass prior to Net release
39 Tue Jan 25 12:12:04 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
41 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Discuss continuing stabs with ?.
43 Wed Jan 19 06:39:24 1994 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
45 * stabs.texinfo (Non-Stab Symbol Types): Mention N_SET* | N_EXT.
47 Sun Jan 16 12:43:32 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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.
53 * Makefile.in: Remove refcard.dvi and GDBvn.texi in realclean,
56 Wed Jan 12 21:29:54 1994 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
58 * gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Document `set print
59 fast-symbolic-addr' and improve the doc for some other
62 Mon Jan 3 17:23:07 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
64 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Talk about defining several type
66 Fix lint regarding changing node ELF Transformations to
67 ELF and SOM Transformations.
69 Fri Dec 31 00:42:43 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
71 * stabs.texinfo: Insert Peter Kessler's name as inventor (I think).
73 Tue Dec 28 09:30:40 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
75 * stabs.texinfo (Cross-References): `::' is for nested types only
77 (Structures): Document static members.
79 Mon Dec 27 13:55:04 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
81 * stabs.texinfo: Document S type attribute.
83 Sun Dec 26 20:46:36 1993 Jeffrey A. Law (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)
85 * stabs.texinfo: Add notes about stabs-in-som where appropriate.
87 Fri Dec 3 19:13:19 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
89 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix a few typos.
91 Sun Nov 28 18:06:25 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
93 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: formatting improvements
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
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.
105 Wed Nov 24 14:15:56 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
107 * refcard.tex: avoid bad linebreaks even when REFEDITS=psrc.sed
109 Fri Nov 12 16:10:58 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
111 * stabs.texinfo (Nested Symbols): New node.
112 (String Field, Symbol Descriptors, Cross-References): Refer to it.
114 Thu Nov 11 13:26:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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
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
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.
129 Mon Nov 8 11:47:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
131 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up stuff about visibility and virtual
134 * stabs.texinfo (N_M2C): Cite Sun doc.
136 Fri Nov 5 16:27:27 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
138 * gdb.texinfo: updates re threads.
139 * remote.texinfo: avoid index entries starting with digits.
141 Tue Nov 2 09:08:37 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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.
147 Sun Oct 31 13:31:10 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
149 * remote.texi (VxWorks Remote): Clarify that rebuilding VxWorks kernel
150 is a mandatory step. Make the stuff about that more concise.
152 Wed Oct 27 00:25:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
154 * stabs.texinfo (Class Names): New node.
156 * gdb.texinfo (Command Files): Explain order of init file reading.
158 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Talk about getting the serial driver
159 to deal with ^C sent by gdb to stop the remote system.
161 Mon Oct 25 03:25:41 1993 Tom Lord (lord@cygnus.com)
163 * libgdb.texinfo (I/O): incorporated better phrasing from rich.
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.
169 * libgdb.texinfo: total rewrite from a different starting
172 Wed Oct 20 18:07:44 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
174 * stabs.texinfo (Local Variable Parameters): Re-write paragraph on
175 floats passed as doubles (to improve clarity).
177 Tue Oct 19 14:21:18 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
179 * gdb.texinfo (Source Path): index entries for $cwd, $pdir
181 * a4rc.sed: update to work with Andreas Vogel papersize params
183 * refcard.tex: use Andreas Vogel simplifications of papersize
184 params; remove useless version info; update copyright date.
186 Tue Oct 19 10:46:22 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
188 * gdb.texinfo (Symbols): Add class NAME to doc for ptype.
190 Tue Oct 12 09:11:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
192 * gdb.texinfo (Files): Say what address the load command loads it at.
194 * stabs.texinfo (Common Blocks): Minor cleanups.
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.
200 * stabs.texinfo (Traditional Integer Types): Clean up description
201 of octal bounds a little bit. Document extra leading zeroes.
203 Thu Oct 7 16:15:37 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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.
209 Wed Oct 6 13:23:01 1993 Tom Lord (lord@rtl.cygnus.com)
211 * libgdb.texinfo: added `@' to braces that were unescaped.
213 Mon Oct 4 10:42:18 1993 Tom Lord (lord@rtl.cygnus.com)
215 * libgdb.texinfo: new file. Spec for the gdb library.
217 Sun Oct 3 15:26:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
219 * stabs.texinfo (Include Files): Fix typo (start -> end).
221 Thu Sep 30 18:24:56 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
223 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: assorted small improvements, mostly
224 from Melissa at FSF's editing pass.
226 Thu Sep 30 11:54:38 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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.
232 Wed Sep 22 21:22:11 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
234 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Discuss 386 call gates.
236 Sat Sep 18 17:10:44 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@poseidon.cygnus.com)
238 * stabs.texinfo (Based Variables): New node.
240 Thu Sep 16 17:48:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cirdan.cygnus.com)
242 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Re-write discussions of
243 names, sizes, and formats to suggest how not to lose.
245 Sat Sep 11 09:35:11 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@poseidon.cygnus.com)
247 * stabs.texinfo (Methods): Fix typo.
249 Fri Sep 10 06:34:20 1993 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
251 * gdb.texinfo: Fix a few typos.
253 Wed Sep 8 09:11:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
255 * gdb.texinfo: Clarify how well it works with Fortran.
257 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF, Statics, ELF Transformations):
258 More on relocating stabs in ELF files.
260 Tue Sep 7 13:45:02 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
262 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF): Talk about N_FUN value.
264 Mon Sep 6 19:23:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
266 * stabs.texinfo (Local Variable Parameters): Talk about nameless
269 Fri Sep 3 17:06:08 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
271 * gdb.texinfo: @up/@down -> @raisesections/@lowersections
273 Fri Sep 3 12:04:15 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
275 * stabs.texinfo: Make info author notice match the TeX author notice.
277 Tue Aug 31 13:21:06 1993 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
279 * stabs.texinfo: Initial-caps all words in node names and
280 non-trivial words in section names.
282 Mon Aug 30 11:13:16 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
284 * stabs.texinfo: Many minor cleanups.
286 * stabs.texinfo: Remove @deffn except from Expanded Reference node.
288 Sat Aug 28 12:08:09 1993 David J. MacKenzie (djm@edison.eng.umd.edu)
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.
298 Thu Aug 26 06:36:31 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@deneb.cygnus.com)
300 * gdb.texinfo: Change typo "Two two" to "The two".
302 Sun Aug 22 12:15:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
304 * stabs.texinfo (XCOFF-differences): Remove references to
305 non-existent types N_DECL and N_RPSYM.
307 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Say that type attributes bug is
308 fixed in GDB 4.10, since it is.
310 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up djm cleanups, and more cleanups of my own.
312 Sat Aug 21 04:32:28 1993 David MacKenzie (djm@cygnus.com)
314 * stabs.texinfo: Formatting cleanups.
316 Fri Aug 20 20:49:53 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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,
321 (Global Variables): Clean up.
323 Tue Aug 17 15:57:27 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
325 * stabs.texinfo (Stack Variables): Re-write.
327 Mon Aug 16 21:20:08 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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.
334 Thu Aug 12 15:11:51 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
336 * stabs.texinfo: Point to mangling info in gcc's gpcompare.texi.
338 Tue Aug 10 16:57:49 1993 Stan Shebs (shebs@rtl.cygnus.com)
340 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed many nonsensical machine-collected
341 host and target conditionals, described some of the remainder.
343 Tue Aug 10 13:28:30 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
345 * gdbint.texinfo (Getting Started): Use @itemize, not @table.
347 * gdbint.texinfo (Top): Add name to @top line, and re-write the
348 paragraph which follows.
350 * gdbint.texinfo (Host): Use @code not @samp for Makefile
351 variables. Looks better and avoids overful hbox.
353 Fri Jul 30 18:26:21 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
355 * stabs.texinfo (Procedures): Improve stuff on nested functions.
357 Thu Jul 29 15:10:58 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
359 * remote.texi: (MIPS Remote) clearer doc for set/show timeout,
362 Thu Jul 29 13:16:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
364 * gdbint.texinfo: Update statement about `some ancient Unix
365 systems, like Ultrix 4.0' to Ultrix 4.2.
367 Wed Jul 28 15:26:53 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@el_bosque.cygnus.com)
369 * h8-cfg.texi, all-cfg.texi: new flag GDBSERVER
371 * Makefile.in: depend on remote.texi rather than gdbinv-s.texi
373 * remote.texi: (Server) New node on gdbserver. (Remote Serial,
374 ST2000 Remote, MIPS Remote): mention `host:port' syntax for TCP.
376 * remote.texi: new name for former gdbinv-s.texi
378 * gdb.texinfo: use remote.texi rather than gdbinv-s.texi
380 Wed Jul 28 08:26:24 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
382 * gdbinv-s.texi: Documented timeout and retransmit-timeout
383 variables for MIPS remote debugging protocol.
385 Mon Jul 26 13:00:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
387 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): FORTRAN LOGICAL fix.
389 Tue Jul 20 16:30:41 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@deneb.cygnus.com)
391 * Makefile.in (refcard.dvi): Use srcdir where necessary.
393 Mon Jul 19 12:02:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@cygnus.com)
395 * gdb.texinfo: repair conditional bugs in text markup
397 Fri Jul 16 18:57:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
399 * gdb.texinfo, all-cfg.texi, h8-cfg.texi: introduce MOD2 switch
400 to select Modula-2 material.
402 Thu Jul 15 13:15:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
404 * stabs.texinfo: Cleanups regarding statics.
406 * gdbinv-s.texi (Bootstrapping): Document exceptionHandler.
407 (Debug Session): Mention exceptionHandler. Add xref to Bootstrapping.
409 Mon Jul 12 13:37:02 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
411 * stabs.texinfo: N_MAIN is sometimes used for C.
413 Fri Jul 9 09:47:02 1993 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
415 * gdbint.texinfo (Host, Target Conditionals): Remove TM_FILE_OVERRIDE.
417 Tue Jul 6 12:41:28 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
419 * gdbint.texinfo (Target Conditionals): Remove NO_TYPEDEFS,
420 removed from the code by Kingdon.
422 Tue Jul 6 12:24:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
424 * gdb.texinfo (Break Commands): Remove stuff about flushing terminal
425 input when evaluating breakpoint conditions; the bug has been fixed.
427 * gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): Argument to "continue"
428 sets the ignore count to N-1, not to N.
430 Thu Jul 1 14:57:42 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
432 * refcard.tex (\hoffset): correct longstanding error to match
433 intended offset; avoids cutting off edge on some printers
435 Wed Jun 30 18:23:06 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
437 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Say that order of stabs is significant.
439 Fri Jun 25 21:34:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
441 * stabs.texinfo (Common Blocks): Say what Sun FORTRAN does.
443 Fri Jun 25 16:15:10 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
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
451 * refcard.tex: parametrize papersize dependent info, collect
452 in easily replaced spot
454 * a4rc.sed: new file, edits to refcard for A4 paper
456 Fri Jun 25 14:21:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
458 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Type -16 is 4 bytes.
460 Wed Jun 23 15:02:50 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
462 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Minor character cleanups.
464 Tue Jun 22 16:31:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
466 * stabs.texinfo: Express disapproval of 'D' symbol descriptor
467 politely rather than rudely.
469 Fri Jun 18 19:42:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
471 * stabs.texinfo: Document common blocks.
473 Fri Jun 18 12:12:57 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
475 * stabs.texinfo: Add some basic info about stabs-in-elf.
477 Fri Jun 18 13:57:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
479 * stabs.texinfo (Top): Minor cleanup.
481 Mon Jun 14 16:16:51 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at rtl.cygnus.com)
483 * Makefile.in (install-info): remove parentdir support
485 Tue Jun 15 18:11:39 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
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.
492 * gdbinv-s.texi (passim): Improvements from last round at FSF,
493 largely due to Ian Taylor review. (Debug Session): minor edits to
496 Sun Jun 13 12:52:39 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
498 * Makefile.in (realclean): Remove info and dvi files too.
500 Sat Jun 12 16:09:22 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
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.
506 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up N_{L,R}BRAC. Discuss what addresses of
507 N_{L,R}BRAC,N_SLINE are relative to.
509 Fri Jun 11 15:15:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
511 * Makefile.in (GDBvn.texi): Update atomically.
513 Wed Jun 9 10:58:16 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
515 * gdbinv-s.texi (Debug Session): Document exceptionHook.
517 Tue Jun 8 13:42:04 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
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.
523 Tue Jun 1 22:46:43 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
525 * gdb.texinfo (set print elements): Note that the number of
526 elements is set to unlimited by "set print elements 0".
528 Mon May 31 08:06:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
530 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Try to clarify what
532 (Stab Types): Include Solaris stab types.
533 (Procedures): Document Solaris extensions.
535 Thu May 27 06:20:42 1993 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
537 * gdb.texinfo: Add `set print symbol-filename' doc.
539 Wed May 26 00:26:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
541 * stabs.texinfo (Arrays): Talk about type definition vs. type
544 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting
545 the trailing semicolon.
547 Tue May 25 14:49:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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.
553 * stabs.texinfo (Subranges, Arrays): Try to explain about the semicolon
554 at the end of a range type.
556 * stabs.texinfo (Subranges): "A offset" and "T offset" are not
559 Mon May 24 09:00:33 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
561 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs Format): Misc fixes.
563 Sat May 22 10:40:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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.
569 Fri May 21 11:20:31 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
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.
576 Thu May 20 13:35:10 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
578 * stabs.texinfo: Remove node Quick Reference and put its children
579 directly under the main menu.
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.
588 * stabs.texinfo (Automatic variables): Talk about what it means
589 to omit the symbol descriptor.
591 Tue May 18 17:59:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
593 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Add "(sometimes)" when describing
594 gcc2 behavior with promoted args.
596 Fri May 14 21:35:29 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
598 * gdb.texinfo: include readline appendices in info version of manual
600 Fri May 7 11:56:18 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
602 * gdbinv-s.texi (Remote Serial): describe new ^C behavior in
605 * gdb.texinfo (Machine Code): more index entries for disassemble
607 Fri May 7 10:12:30 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
609 * Clarify the intended use of the gdb-testers and gdb-patches
610 mailing lists, and shrink gzip comment.
612 Thu May 6 16:39:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
614 * gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): do not mention SHELL env var in
615 DOSHOST configuration of manual.
617 * gdb.texinfo (MIPS Stack): new node.
619 * all-config.texi (MIPS) new switch.
621 * gdbinv-s.texi (Nindy Options) Remove two instances of future
622 tense; (MIPS Remote) new node.
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.
629 Thu Apr 29 09:36:25 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
631 * stabs.texinfo: Many changes to include information from the
634 * gdb.texinfo (Environment): Mention pitfall with .cshrc.
636 Tue Apr 27 14:02:57 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
638 * gdbint.texinfo (new node Debugging GDB, elsewhere):
639 Move a bunch of information from ../README.
640 (Getting Started): New node.
642 Fri Apr 23 17:21:13 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
644 * gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo: include Hitachi SH target
646 * gdb.texinfo: advance manual revision dates to present
648 * gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo, all-config.texi, h8-config.texi:
649 stop using silly Roman numerals in @set variable names
651 Fri Apr 23 07:30:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
653 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Keep trying to get this right.
655 Wed Apr 21 15:18:47 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
657 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): More on "local parameters".
659 Mon Apr 19 08:00:51 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
661 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Re-do "local parameters" section.
663 Sun Apr 18 09:47:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
665 * stabs.texinfo (Symbol descriptors): Re-do using @table and @xref.
666 (Parameters): Rewrite.
667 (xcoff-differences, Sun-differences): Minor changes.
669 Thu Apr 15 02:35:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cacophony.cygnus.com)
671 * stabs.texinfo: Minor cleanup.
673 Wed Apr 14 17:31:00 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
675 * gdbint.texinfo: Minor xcoff stuff.
677 Wed Apr 7 14:11:07 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
679 * gdbint.texinfo: Update for new config directory structure.
680 Add info about internal type data structures.
682 Mon Apr 5 09:06:30 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
684 * Makefile.in (SFILES_INCLUDED): gdb-config.texi is no longer in
686 (gdb-config.texi): Depend on file in $(srcdir).
688 Fri Apr 2 16:55:13 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
690 * stabs.texinfo: Fixes about N_SO.
692 Fri Mar 26 18:00:35 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
694 * gdb.texinfo: include list of nonstandard init file names
696 * *-config.texi: new switch GENERIC for text that applies *only*
697 to (usual) multiple-target version of manual
699 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: Update conditional markup to correct
702 * gdb.texinfo: depend on latest fixed makeinfo, use conditionals
703 in menus (rather than conditionally selected multiple alternative
706 * Makefile.in: define and use DOC_CONFIG var to select
707 configuration for GDB user manual.
709 * gdb-config.texi: delete from repository, generate from Makefile.
711 * all-config.texi: normal `generic' configuration file, formerly
712 stored as gdb-config.texi
714 Wed Mar 24 14:03:19 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at poseidon.cygnus.com)
716 * Makefile.in: add dvi target to build all .dvi files
718 Tue Mar 23 16:03:24 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
720 * gdb.texinfo, gdvinv-s.texinfo: formatting improvements.
722 Fri Mar 19 21:46:50 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
724 * gdbint.texinfo: Doc NO_MMALLOC and NO_MMALLOC_CHECK as
726 * stabs.texinfo: More array fixes inspired by Jim's.
728 Fri Mar 19 10:23:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
730 * stabs.texinfo: Fixes re arrays and continuations.
732 * gdbint.texinfo: Add XCOFF node.
734 Mon Mar 8 15:52:18 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
736 * gdb.texinfo: Add `set print max-symbolic-offset' doc.
738 Sun Feb 21 17:09:38 1993 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
740 * stabs.texinfo: Fix for array types to mention lower bounds.
742 Thu Feb 18 01:19:49 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
744 * gdbint.texinfo: Update PTRACE_ARG3_TYPE doc, pull PT_*.
746 Wed Feb 17 08:15:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
748 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE from target defines.
750 Thu Feb 11 10:38:40 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
752 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix thinko (NM_FILE => NAT_FILE). Found
753 by Michael Ben-Gershon <mybg@CS.HUJI.AC.IL>.
755 Wed Feb 10 23:59:19 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
757 * gdbint.texinfo: Eliminate IBM6000_HOST, document IBM6000_TARGET.
759 Tue Feb 9 18:26:21 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
761 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: misc updates
763 Sat Feb 6 10:25:47 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
765 * gdbint.texinfo: Brief documentation for longjmp support,
766 from an email msg by Stu.
768 Fri Feb 5 14:10:15 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
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>.
774 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove COFF_NO_LONG_FILE_NAMES define, now gone.
776 Thu Feb 4 13:56:46 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
778 * gdbint.texinfo: Slightly expand section on supporting a new
781 Thu Feb 4 01:49:04 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
783 * Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Remove psref.tex
786 Tue Feb 2 12:18:06 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
788 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: miscellaneous stylistic cleanups
790 Mon Feb 1 15:35:47 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
792 * gdbinv-s.texi: z8000 simulator target name is just "sim"
794 * gdbinv-s.texi: Mention that Z8000 simulator can simulate Z8001
797 Sat Nov 28 06:51:35 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
799 * gdbint.texinfo: Add sections on clean design and on how to send
802 Mon Nov 9 23:57:02 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
804 * gdbint.texinfo: Add how to declare the result of make_cleanup.
806 Mon Oct 26 11:09:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
808 * gdb.texinfo: Fix typo, reported by Karl Berry.
810 Fri Oct 23 00:41:21 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
812 * gdb.texinfo: Add opcodes dir to GDB distribution description.
814 Sat Oct 10 18:04:58 1992 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at cirdan.cygnus.com)
816 * gdbint.texinfo: fixed a stray email address (needs @@),
817 added @table @code to node "Native Conditionals"
819 Tue Sep 22 00:34:15 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
821 * gdbint.texinfo: Describe coding style of GDB.
823 Mon Sep 21 19:32:16 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
825 * stabs.texinfo: Minor wording changes.
827 Tue Sep 15 02:57:09 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
829 * gdbint.texinfo: Improve release doc slightly.
831 Fri Sep 11 01:34:25 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@sphagnum.cygnus.com)
833 * gdbint.texinfo: Improve doc of GDB config macros.
835 Wed Sep 9 16:52:06 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
837 * stabs.texinfo: Remove Bothner's changes for C++ nested types.
838 These will be reinserted when examined.
840 Mon Aug 24 01:17:55 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
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.
846 Tue Aug 18 15:59:13 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
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
853 Tue Aug 18 14:53:27 1992 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
855 * Makefile.in: always create installation directories.
857 Tue Aug 18 14:11:50 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
859 * gdb.texinfo: in h8 config, do not describe searching commands.
861 Mon Aug 17 18:07:59 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
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.
867 * gdb.texinfo: fix typo in "info reg" description
869 Sun Aug 16 01:16:18 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
871 * stabs.texinfo: Minor updates from running TeX over it.
872 * Makefile.in (stabs.dvi, stabs.ps): Add.
874 Sat Aug 15 20:52:24 1992 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
876 * stabs.texinfo: Stabs documentation, written by Julia Menapace.
877 First pass at converting it to texinfo.
879 Sat Aug 15 03:14:59 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
881 * gdb.texinfo, refcard.tex: Document mult args on `info reg'.
882 * Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Add missing $(srdir).
884 Fri Aug 14 21:08:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
886 * gdbint.texinfo: Add section on partial symbol tables.
888 Sat Jun 20 16:31:10 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
890 * gdb.texinfo: document `set remotedebug' and `set
891 rstack_high_address'.
893 Thu May 14 17:09:48 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
895 * gdb.texinfo: slight expansion of new text on reading info files
896 * gdbinv-s.m4.in: correct and expand info on cross-debugging
899 Tue May 12 12:22:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
901 * gdb.texinfo: `info user' => `show user'. Noticed by David Taylor.
903 Mon May 11 19:06:27 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
905 * gdb.texinfo: Say how to read the `info' files.
907 Tue May 5 12:11:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
909 * Makefile.in: gm4 -> m4.
911 Fri Apr 10 17:50:43 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at rtl.cygnus.com)
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.
918 Tue Mar 24 23:28:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
920 * Makefile.in: remove $(srcdir) from gdb.info rule.
922 Sat Mar 7 18:44:50 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@rtl.cygnus.com)
924 * Makefile.in: commented out gdb-all.texinfo rule. This is
927 Wed Feb 26 18:04:40 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
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.
933 Fri Dec 13 09:47:31 1991 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
935 * gdb.texinfo: Improve how we ask for bug reports.
937 Tue Dec 10 04:07:21 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
939 * Makefile.in: infodir belongs in datadir.
941 Fri Dec 6 23:57:34 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
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.
947 Thu Dec 5 22:46:12 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
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.
958 version-control: never