From 11d1934593e60d030e06995a190ba4a3c3c9caea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Kingdon Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 03:25:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] revisions to just-checked-in stuff re common blocks --- gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo index 515ef97ee53..2c3c1af5b24 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo @@ -956,8 +956,11 @@ which gives the address of the common block. Then each stab between the @code{N_BCOMM} and the @code{N_ECOMM} specifies a member of that common block; its value is the offset within the common block of that variable. The @code{N_ECOML} stab type is documented for this purpose, but Sun's -@sc{fortran} compiler uses @code{N_GSYM} instead, with the @samp{V} -symbol descriptor. +@sc{fortran} compiler uses @code{N_GSYM} instead. The test case I +looked at had a common block local to a function and it used the +@samp{V} symbol descriptor; I assume one would use @samp{S} if not local +to a function (that is, if a common block @emph{can} be anything other +than local to a function). @node Initialized statics @section Initialized static variables -- 2.30.2