* gdb.texinfo: Remove stuff about ar and 14 character filenames.

	I believe this was fixed by the 13 Sep 89 change to print_frame_info.
	Also, modern versions of ar like BSD 4.4 or SVR4 don't have this bug.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 0de4733aa2f905279c6b8710c1f5f556bc7f759d..7d7f8c301825903fc5a64062d61dd69b28f39e01 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Thu Sep 30 11:54:38 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+
+       * gdb.texinfo: Remove stuff about ar and 14 character filenames.
+       I believe this was fixed by the 13 Sep 89 change to print_frame_info.
+       Also, modern versions of ar like BSD 4.4 or SVR4 don't have this bug.
+
 Wed Sep 22 21:22:11 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
 
        * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Discuss 386 call gates.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 2817e5070406a8ce4eeb34c8af2114d72b429eb2..4fad9a3b85a807b0eac91bbb3ab8418a820e6175 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -1409,22 +1409,6 @@ Older versions of the GNU C compiler permitted a variant option
 @w{@samp{-gg}} for debugging information.  @value{GDBN} no longer supports this
 format; if your GNU C compiler has this option, do not use it.
 
-@ignore
-@comment As far as I know, there are no cases in which @value{GDBN} will
-@comment produce strange output in this case.  (but no promises).
-If your program includes archives made with the @code{ar} program, and
-if the object files used as input to @code{ar} were compiled without the
-@samp{-g} option and have names longer than 15 characters, @value{GDBN} will get
-confused reading your program's symbol table.  No error message will be
-given, but @value{GDBN} may behave strangely.  The reason for this problem is a
-deficiency in the Unix archive file format, which cannot represent file
-names longer than 15 characters.
-
-To avoid this problem, compile the archive members with the @samp{-g}
-option or use shorter file names.  Alternatively, use a version of GNU
-@code{ar} dated more recently than August 1989.
-@end ignore
-
 @need 2000
 @node Starting
 @section Starting your program