From: Jim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 16:33:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	* stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Document format for type
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a9a4aec834d2050319d75e4275c0bea64e542545;p=binutils-gdb.git

	* stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Document format for type
	-16.
---

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index cd59d45e0dd..7a12f63f52b 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Feb  2 11:29:17 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+
+	* stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Document format for type
+	-16.
+
 Thu Jan 27 16:53:56 1994  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
 
 	* gdb.texinfo (Selection, Frame Info): Update information about
diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
index b5beccb76d3..85c2d4ead1d 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
@@ -1543,9 +1543,9 @@ use a new negative type number.
 @code{integer}.  32 bit signed integral type.
 
 @item -16
-@code{boolean}.  32 bit type.  How is the truth value encoded?  Is it
-the least significant bit or is it a question of whether the whole value
-is zero or non-zero?
+@code{boolean}.  32 bit type.  GDB and GCC assume that zero is false,
+one is true, and other values have unspecified meaning.  I hope this
+agrees with how the IBM tools use the type.
 
 @item -17
 @code{short real}.  IEEE single precision.