From fa123c32812987da71b0b1d664f0c80aa2c9d707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joel Brobecker Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:08:42 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] gdb/NEWS: Document that GDB now supports DWARF-based fixed point types gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS: Add entry documenting support for DWARF-based fixed point types. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gdb/NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index f74588dfcbb..2a29c1c7660 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2020-11-24 Joel Brobecker + + * NEWS: Add entry documenting support for DWARF-based fixed + point types. + 2020-11-24 Joel Brobecker * NEWS: Document that building GDB now requires GMP. diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index 792f4860975..d75992e78ef 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ $HOME/.gdbinit. On Apple hosts the search order is instead: $HOME/Library/Preferences/gdb/gdbinit, $HOME/.gdbinit. +* GDB now supports fixed point types which are described in DWARF + as base types with a fixed-point encoding. Additionally, support + for the DW_AT_GNU_numerator and DW_AT_GNU_denominator has also + been added. + + For Ada, this allows support for fixed point types without requiring + the use of the GNAT encoding (based on information added to the type's + name following a GNAT-specific format). + * New commands set debug event-loop -- 2.30.2