* stabs.texinfo (String Field): Discuss continuing stabs with ?.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index fd1e46c5162274fb3e2dcc8104f6d08573fc556a..00f11a56484d74751344fe075eb174792eb9da77 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Jan 25 12:12:04 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+
+       * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Discuss continuing stabs with ?.
+
 Wed Jan 19 06:39:24 1994  David J. Mackenzie  (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
 
        * stabs.texinfo (Non-Stab Symbol Types): Mention N_SET* | N_EXT.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
index 4e4a7067d8011e8693a219f0a4966a5c6cfb0a54..b5beccb76d3486e4d51ff5d0eeba432aae5a6997 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
@@ -282,7 +282,9 @@ except the string field.  The string field of every stab except the last
 is marked as continued with a backslash at the end (in the assembly code
 this may be written as a double backslash, depending on the assembler).
 Removing the backslashes and concatenating the string fields of each
-stab produces the original, long string.
+stab produces the original, long string.  Just to be incompatible (or so
+they don't have to worry about what the assembler does with
+backslashes), AIX can use @samp{?} instead of backslash.
 
 @node C Example
 @section A Simple Example in C Source