* gdb.texinfo (Ada Mode Intro): Improve the documentation regarding

        the direct visibility of all names in user-written packages.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index f17217e181312fffbcea4864e620b27acacf0017..999b2d22a8e65d06e080f6ed8380abcf52079c89 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-08-13  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+       * gdb.texinfo (Ada Mode Intro): Improve the documentation regarding
+       the direct visibility of all names in user-written packages.
+
 2008-08-13  Pedro Alves  <pedro@codesourcery.com>
 
        * gdb.texinfo (breakpoint always-inserted) Describe the auto mode

diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 5c851eefc4010010be7c66c0e69d634c4209d04c..1ef4c8af6649b6cb33c9fbcbfae0c537702dbce6 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -11071,11 +11071,11 @@ are not particularly important to the @value{GDBN} user.
 That brevity is important to the @value{GDBN} user.
 @end itemize
 
-Thus, for brevity, the debugger acts as if there were 
-implicit @code{with} and @code{use} clauses in effect for all user-written 
-packages, making it unnecessary to fully qualify most names with 
-their packages, regardless of context.  Where this causes ambiguity, 
-@value{GDBN} asks the user's intent.
+Thus, for brevity, the debugger acts as if all names declared in
+user-written packages are directly visible, even if they are not visible
+according to Ada rules, thus making it unnecessary to fully qualify most
+names with their packages, regardless of context.  Where this causes
+ambiguity, @value{GDBN} asks the user's intent.
 
 The debugger will start in Ada mode if it detects an Ada main program. 
 As for other languages, it will enter Ada mode when stopped in a program that