From: Jim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 05:30:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	* stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9f687d59b7956a2ec1b3bb5d46b5dce4e4e58fe;p=binutils-gdb.git

	* stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting
	the trailing semicolon.
---

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index d31db72919e..3c15211956e 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed May 26 00:26:42 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+
+	* stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting
+	the trailing semicolon.
+
 Tue May 25 14:49:42 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
 
 	* stabs.texinfo (Line Numbers, Source Files): Re-write these two nodes
diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
index e626d630000..cc53dae077d 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
@@ -1340,6 +1340,10 @@ The C @code{void} type is defined as a signed integral type 0 bits long:
 @example
 .stabs "void:t19=bs0;0;0",128,0,0,0
 @end example
+The Solaris compiler seems to omit the trailing semicolon in this case.
+Getting sloppy in this way is not a swift move because if a type is
+embedded in a more complex expression it is necessary to be able to tell
+where it ends.
 
 I'm not sure how a boolean type is represented.