From: Jim Kingdon Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 17:01:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * gdb.texinfo: Remove stuff about ar and 14 character filenames. X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=79bda3c7e83f3e54ac86fdddf33d489ce8799d8a;p=binutils-gdb.git * 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 0de4733aa2f..7d7f8c30182 100644 --- 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 2817e507040..4fad9a3b85a 100644 --- 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