From c90092fe9e8d9932f59c5927c67d83c231e47407 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joel Brobecker Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 18:24:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document ada_remove_trailing_digits more gdb/ChangeLog: * ada-lang.c (ada_remove_trailing_digits): Expand documentation. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ gdb/ada-lang.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index d10df1c3b5b..3c8f30d5ccf 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2011-07-01 Joel Brobecker + + * ada-lang.c (ada_remove_trailing_digits): Expand documentation. + 2011-06-30 Tom Tromey * varobj.c (varobj_create): Call do_cleanups on early exit path. diff --git a/gdb/ada-lang.c b/gdb/ada-lang.c index a3234fba0f7..4f6e1611e56 100644 --- a/gdb/ada-lang.c +++ b/gdb/ada-lang.c @@ -900,11 +900,14 @@ is_lower_alphanum (const char c) return (isdigit (c) || (isalpha (c) && islower (c))); } -/* Remove either of these suffixes: +/* ENCODED is the linkage name of a symbol and LEN contains its length. + This function saves in LEN the length of that same symbol name but + without either of these suffixes: . .{DIGIT}+ . ${DIGIT}+ . ___{DIGIT}+ . __{DIGIT}+. + These are suffixes introduced by the compiler for entities such as nested subprogram for instance, in order to avoid name clashes. They do not serve any purpose for the debugger. */ -- 2.30.2