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1 Mon May 24 10:07:39 1999 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
2
3 * gdbint.texinfo (FRAME_NUM_ARGS): Update definition. Parameter
4 numargs was dropped.
5
6 Thu May 20 12:26:59 1999 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
7
8 * gdbint.texinfo (FRAMELESS_FUNCTION_INVOCATION): Update.
9
10 Tue Apr 27 19:14:20 1999 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
11
12 * gdbint.texinfo (SKIP_PROLOGUE, SKIP_PROLOGUE_FRAMELESS_P):
13 Update.
14
15 Thu Apr 22 13:07:37 1999 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
16
17 * gdbint.texinfo (USE_GENERIC_DUMMY_FRAMES): Document.
18 (GET_SAVED_REGISTER): Update, not just the a29k uses this.
19
20 Wed Apr 21 13:59:01 1999 Dave Brolley <brolley@cygnus.com>
21
22 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix typos: $ -> @.
23
24 Tue Apr 20 11:59:38 1999 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
25
26 * gdbint.texinfo (REGISTER_NAMES, BREAKPOINT, BIG_BREAKPOINT,
27 LITTLE_BREAKPOINT, LITTLE_REMOTE_BREAKPOINT,
28 BIG_REMOTE_BREAKPOINT): Deprecate in favor of REGISTER_NAME and
29 BREAKPOINT_FROM_PC.
30
31 Mon Apr 12 16:00:44 1999 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
32
33 * gdbint.texinfo (CALL_DUMMY_STACK_ADJUST_P,
34 CALL_DUMMY_STACK_ADJUST): Document.
35
36 Thu Apr 8 17:23:15 1999 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
37
38 * gdbint.texinfo (CALL_DUMMY_P, CALL_DUMMY_WORDS,
39 SIZEOF_CALL_DUMMY_WORDS, CALL_DUMMY): Define.
40
41 1999-04-02 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
42
43 * gdbint.texinfo (MAINTENANCE_CMDS): Remove ref, since it no
44 longer exists.
45
46 Tue Mar 9 19:25:11 1999 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
47
48 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi, all-cfg.texi, HPPA-cfg.texi: Remove
49 nearly all @ifset/@ifclear conditionals; nobody uses them, and
50 they make the manual source incomprehensible.
51 * h8-cfg.texi: Remove, hasn't been used in years.
52
53 Thu Feb 11 18:00:59 1999 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
54
55 * gdb.texinfo: Update the credits.
56
57 Mon Feb 8 17:33:57 1999 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
58
59 * gdb.texinfo: Fix mistakes noticed in printout of last
60 draft, add Alpha to discussion of heuristic fence post.
61
62 Fri Feb 5 17:20:00 1999 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
63
64 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: Many changes; update to Seventh
65 Edition, merge some HP changes into mainline, describe some
66 previously undocumented features, describe more of the target
67 commands available, eliminate obsolete section on renamed
68 commands.
69 * all-cfg.texi, HPPA-cfg.texi: Remove some obsolete conditionals.
70
71 Wed Jan 20 17:47:45 1999 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
72
73 * gdb.texinfo: Make many HPPA conditionals unconditional,
74 including catchpoint description, since now on for all configs.
75 * all-cfg.texi: @clear HPPA, since is mainly for very HP-specific
76 specializations.
77
78 Thu Jan 14 17:10:12 1999 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
79
80 * Makefile.in (GDBvn.texi): Fix match expression to work with
81 current format of VERSION in gdb/Makefile.in.
82 * gdb.texinfo: Fix node ref to match new readline.
83
84 Wed Jan 13 10:38:40 1999 Edith Epstein <eepstein@sophia.cygnus.com>
85
86 * gdb.texinfo: Changes made as part of a project to merge in
87 changes made by HP. Documentation makes extensive use of
88 @ifclear HPPA and @ifset HPPA. The HP manual omits doumentation
89 on remote debugging. There are differences in documentation
90 (HP vs. non-HP) on C++ support (aCC vs. gnu gcc++). Also,
91 the HP manual discusses catchpoints, hardware watchpoints, and
92 some HPUX specific limitations for shared library support.
93
94 There are also a number of @node changes.
95
96 1999-01-12 Jason Molenda (jsm@bugshack.cygnus.com)
97
98 * gdbint.texinfo (Formatting): Disambiguate a sentence.
99 (C Usage): Same.
100
101 Wed Jan 6 11:55:34 1999 David Taylor <taylor@texas.cygnus.com>
102
103 The following changes were made by Edith Epstein
104 <eepstein@cygnus.com> as part of a project to merge in changes
105 made by HP.
106
107 * HPPA-cfg.texi: new file.
108
109 * all-cfg.texi: set HPPA for HP PA-RISC targets.
110
111 * refcard.tex: change documentation about catch.
112 removed info catch.
113
114 Mon Jan 4 18:29:18 1999 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
115
116 * gdbint.texinfo: Expand on GDB's coding standards,
117 specify the use of arg names with prototypes.
118
119 1998-12-14 J.T. Conklin <jtc@redbacknetworks.com>
120
121 * gdb.texinfo: Fix tipo.
122
123 Sun Dec 13 10:27:59 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
124
125 * gdbint.texinfo: Document TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_DEFAULT and
126 TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE_P.
127
128 Thu Dec 10 16:07:09 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
129
130 * gdbint.texinfo (FRAME_FIND_SAVED_REGS): Document.
131
132 1998-12-09 Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
133
134 * agentexpr.texi: New file.
135
136 Wed Dec 9 21:13:57 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@chook>
137
138 * gdbint.texinfo (REGISTER_NAME): Replace REGISTER_NAMES.
139
140 1998-12-03 J.T. Conklin <jtc@redbacknetworks.com>
141
142 * remote.texi: Changed wording that implied that the GDB remote
143 protocol caches register values instead of GDB itself.
144
145 Tue Dec 1 17:45:43 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
146
147 * gdbint.texinfo: Add some info about symbol readers.
148 (CHILL_PRODUCER, etc): Comment out descriptions, not useful.
149 (IN_SOLIB_CALL_TRAMPOLINE): Rename info from IN_SOLIB_TRAMPOLINE.
150 (IN_SOLIB_RETURN_TRAMPOLINE): Describe.
151 (KERNEL_DEBUGGING, MIPSEL): No info about these, remove.
152
153 Mon Nov 30 11:32:21 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@chook>
154
155 * gdbint.texinfo (FRAME_CHAIN_VALID_ALTERNATE):
156
157 Sat Nov 28 13:45:53 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
158
159 * gdbint.texinfo (INNER_THAN): Update, now takes parameters.
160
161 Fri Nov 27 12:39:45 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@chook>
162
163 * gdbint.texinfo (NO_SINGLE_STEP): Replace with
164 SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P and SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP.
165
166 Wed Oct 14 10:02:40 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
167
168 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix minor typos.
169
170 Wed Sep 30 18:03:19 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
171
172 * gdbint.texinfo: Complete overhaul. Group descriptions more
173 logically, add more info on generic algorithms, remove much
174 obsolete and/or wrong material.
175
176 Fri Jul 24 17:51:38 1998 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
177
178 * stabs.texinfo (Method Type Descriptor): Expand and correct.
179
180 Mon May 4 10:37:12 1998 Brian Youmans (3diff@gnu.org)
181
182 * refcard.tex: Copyright, address updates.
183
184 Tue Apr 21 18:09:56 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
185
186 * gdb.texinfo (EDITION, DATE): Update and change to use ordinals
187 for the edition instead of confusing GDB-version-like numbers.
188
189 Mon Apr 13 14:05:00 1998 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
190
191 * gdb.texinfo (hbreak, watch): Fix typo, "date" -> "data".
192
193 Thu Apr 2 16:52:44 1998 Jason Molenda (crash@bugshack.cygnus.com)
194
195 * LRS: Reformat a bit to keep text under 80 columns.
196
197 Thu Apr 2 16:10:36 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
198
199 * gdb.texinfo: Add some credits, mention bug monitor.
200 * remote.texi: Mention mips monitor targets.
201 * gdbint.texinfo: Describe SP_REGNUM, STEP_SKIPS_DELAY.
202
203 Mon Feb 2 17:13:03 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
204
205 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove obsolete mentions of pinsn.c and opcode.h
206 files, finish sorting of host vs target vs native macros, describe
207 some more of them.
208
209 Tue Jan 13 16:44:50 1998 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
210
211 * gdbint.texinfo (Host Conditionals): Document change from
212 using NO_MMALLOC to it's inverse, USE_MMALLOC.
213
214 Mon Nov 24 13:55:21 1997 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
215
216 * gdbint.texinfo (Host Conditionals): Document
217 PRINTF_HAS_LONG_DOUBLE, SCANF_HAS_LONG_DOUBLE, HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE.
218
219 Fri Jul 4 14:52:31 1997 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
220
221 * gdbint.texinfo (Host Conditionals): Add CRLF_SOURCE_LINES.
222 Document LSEEK_NOT_LINEAR.
223
224 Tue Mar 25 14:44:09 1997 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
225
226 * stabs.texinfo (Stab Section Basics): Make it clear that only
227 some versions of the GNU linker remove the leading N_UNDF symbol.
228
229 Thu Feb 27 17:45:19 1997 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
230
231 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Document type number pairs here,
232 instead of in the Sun specific section.
233 (Include Files): The GNU linker supports the N_BINCL
234 optimization. Clarify the N_BINCL value, and what it is used
235 for.
236 (Procedures): Document N_FUN with an empty string to mark the end
237 of a function.
238 (Typedefs): Mention that Sun compilers may use N_GSYM for a type.
239 (Sun Differences): Remove this node, as the information is now
240 elsewhere in the main document.
241 (Stab Section Basics): Mention that the GNU linker may optimize
242 stabs and remove the leading N_UNDF symbol.
243
244 Mon Dec 9 12:23:32 1996 Roland Pesch <roland@wrs.com>
245
246 * gdb.texinfo, refcard.tex: Restore author credit
247
248 Wed Oct 2 22:01:36 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@fishfood.ninemoons.com>
249
250 * gdbint.texinfo (SIGTRAMP_START, SIGTRAMP_END): Update
251 documentation to account for START and END macros taking
252 one arg.
253
254 Thu Aug 22 17:59:03 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
255
256 From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
257 * gdb.texinfo (Frames): Fix typo.
258
259 Tue Jul 23 10:06:20 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
260
261 * gdbint.texinfo (NO_SINGLE_STEP): Document that single_step takes
262 a target_signal as arg type, not a pid.
263
264 Fri Jul 12 11:10:05 1996 Stu Grossman (grossman@critters.cygnus.com)
265
266 * gdb.texinfo: Document `set assembly-language'.
267
268 Thu Jul 11 13:50:28 1996 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
269
270 * remote.texi: Update list of stubs in the GDB distribution.
271
272 Fri Jul 5 15:38:54 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
273
274 * gdbint.texinfo (NO_MMCHECK): Renamed from NO_MMALLOC_CHECK.
275 Also document that some systems can use mmalloc but must define
276 this if their C runtime allocates memory that is later freed.
277 (MMCHECK_FORCE): Document new macro.
278
279 Fri Jun 28 22:17:10 1996 Dawn Perchik <dawn@cygnus.com>
280
281 * remote.texi: Add documentation for target Sparclet.
282
283 Mon Jun 24 18:12:22 1996 Jason Molenda (crash@godzilla.cygnus.co.jp)
284
285 * Makefile.in (srcdir, VPATH, prefix, infodir, INSTALL,
286 INSTALL_PROGRAM, INSTALL_DATA): Use autoconf set values.
287 * configure.in: Rewritten for autoconf.
288 * configure: New.
289
290 Mon Jun 17 10:43:41 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
291
292 * Makefile.in (DVIPS): New define, set to dvips.
293 (dvi): Add stabs.dvi.
294 (ps): New target.
295 (all-doc): Depend on info, dvi, and ps targets.
296 (STAGESTUFF): Add *.ps and *.dvi files.
297 (clean-info, clean-dvi): Remove.
298 (mostlyclean): Does not depend upon clean-info or clean-dvi,
299 rules completely rewritten.
300 (maintainer-clean): Remove clean-info and clean-dvi
301 dependencies and put their actions in the rules.
302 (gdb.ps): New target
303 (gdb.dvi, gdbgui.dvi, gdbint.dvi, stabs.dvi): Remove
304 intermediate TeX files, whether they have 2 or 3 character
305 extensions.
306 (gdbint.ps): Add target and rules.
307 (gdb-internals): Delete unused target.
308 (Makefile): Depends upon config.status also.
309
310 Sat Mar 30 15:46:58 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
311
312 * gdbint.texinfo (CC_HAS_LONG_LONG): Clarify when/how this is
313 set.
314
315 Sat Mar 16 15:10:20 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
316
317 From Peter Schauer <Peter.Schauer@Regent.E-Technik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
318 * gdb.texinfo (Expressions): Fix erroneous array constant example.
319
320 Sat Mar 16 13:28:45 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
321
322 * gdb.texinfo: Add missing "@bullet" to some "@itemize" commands.
323
324 Sat Feb 10 03:28:36 1996 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
325
326 * gdb.texinfo (Print settings): Document
327 `set/show print static-members' commands.
328
329 Wed Jan 10 14:16:37 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
330
331 * gdbint.texinfo (Native): Document name change, coredep.c to
332 core-aout.c.
333
334 Wed Dec 13 12:35:28 1995 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
335
336 * stabs.texinfo (Include Files): Document the values the SunOS4
337 linker creates for N_BINCL/N_EINCL/N_EXCL stabs.
338
339 Fri Dec 8 21:08:44 1995 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
340
341 * gdbint.texinfo (Releases): Change gdb.tar.Z to gdb.tar.gz.
342 Fix typo.
343
344 Fri Dec 1 11:07:50 1995 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
345
346 * gdbint.texinfo (Releases): Make "gdb.tar.gz" rather than
347 "gdb.tar.Z".
348
349 Wed Sep 20 13:14:10 1995 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
350
351 * Makefile.in (maintainer-clean): New target, synonym for
352 realclean.
353
354 Thu Aug 3 10:45:37 1995 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
355
356 * Update all FSF addresses except those in COPYING* files.
357
358 Wed Jul 19 18:43:03 1995 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
359
360 From Richard Earnshaw (rearnsha@armltd.co.uk):
361 * gdb.texinfo (convenience variables): Document $_exitcode.
362 (quit): Document optional expression to use as exit code.
363
364 Thu Jun 22 21:27:33 1995 Victoria Mixon <victoria@cygnus.com>
365
366 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: Brought up to date with various
367 GDB changes.
368
369 Tue Jun 20 14:35:38 1995 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
370
371 * gdb.texinfo: Update dates and versions, fix comments about
372 hardware watchpoints in future releases and about the
373 sharedlibrary command.
374
375 Mon May 8 09:30:36 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
376
377 * stabs.texinfo: Remove node `XCOFF differences'. Describe value of
378 C_FUN stab. Other cleanups.
379
380 Wed Apr 19 07:02:19 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
381
382 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Clarify that flush_i_cache is only
383 for the sparc stub.
384
385 Tue Apr 11 11:41:49 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
386
387 * annotate.texi: Clarify which addresses have differing formats
388 depending on the language and which do not.
389
390 Tue Mar 28 16:56:22 1995 J.T. Conklin <jtc@rtl.cygnus.com>
391
392 * remote.texi (NetWare): Changed example to use BOARD= instead of
393 NODE= argument to reflect correspoding change to gdbserve.nlm.
394
395 Fri Mar 17 06:47:02 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
396
397 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Mention the fact that
398 GDB, as well as AIX dbx, supports the size type attribute.
399
400 Thu Mar 16 12:11:32 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
401
402 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Document types -31 to -34.
403
404 Mon Mar 13 16:49:13 1995 Per Bothner <bothner@kalessin.cygnus.com>
405
406 * gdb.texinfo (Define): Document $arg0... arguments to commands,
407 and new 'if' and 'while' commands.
408
409 Fri Feb 17 15:24:35 1995 Per Bothner <bothner@kalessin.cygnus.com>
410
411 * gdb.texinfo (Artificial arrays): Note use of coerce-to-array-type.
412
413 Wed Feb 15 11:59:18 1995 J.T. Conklin <jtc@rtl.cygnus.com>
414
415 * all-cfg.texi: New flag, GDBSERVE, for NetWare's gdbserve.nlm.
416 * remote.texi (NetWare): New node, how to use gdbserve.nlm on
417 NetWare targets. Mostly stolen from the Server node.
418
419 Fri Feb 10 20:20:08 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
420
421 * gdb.texinfo (Setting): Talk about the language of a source file
422 versus the working language. The old documentation did not match
423 what GDB did.
424
425 Wed Feb 1 20:26:36 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
426
427 * stabs.texinfo (Source Files): Document N_SO used to mark the end
428 of a source file.
429
430 Mon Jan 23 14:23:37 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
431
432 * gdb.texinfo (Processes): New node.
433
434 Tue Jan 17 14:09:03 1995 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@sanguine.cygnus.com>
435
436 * remote.texi: Update documentation of set/show mipsfpu.
437
438
439 Sun Sep 4 16:47:21 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
440
441 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed mentions of some incorrectly placed and
442 obsolete conditionals, described some others.
443
444 Mon Aug 1 15:42:39 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
445
446 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove references to BROKEN_LARGE_ALLOCA and
447 SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE; they were removed from GDB 14 May 1994.
448
449 Mon Aug 1 15:12:02 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
450
451 * gdbint.texinfo: Put regex conditionals in their own table.
452
453 Tue Jul 26 18:32:52 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
454
455 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed mentions of many obsolete conditionals,
456 described or fixed the descriptions of many others.
457
458 Sun Jul 17 14:14:03 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
459
460 * gdb.texinfo: Add some more credits.
461 * gdbint.texinfo: Capitalize GDB consistently, describe some
462 macros and remove some.
463
464 Thu Jul 14 18:43:17 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
465
466 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed mentions of many incorrectly placed and
467 obsolete conditionals, described some others.
468
469 Tue Jul 12 12:23:15 1994 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
470
471 * gdb.texinfo (help targets): Changed to `help target', which
472 is the correct gdb command.
473
474 Wed Jun 22 18:00:51 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
475
476 * annotate.texi (TODO): New node, for keeping track of annotations
477 suggested but not yet implemented.
478
479 Wed Jun 1 16:10:45 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
480
481 * stabs.texinfo (Statics): Value of xcoff C_BSTAT points to
482 another symbol, it is not the address itself.
483
484 Thu May 5 20:23:36 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
485
486 * stabs.texinfo (Stab Section Basics): Add comment about alignment
487 of stabs-in-coff sections.
488
489 Wed May 4 06:26:11 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
490
491 * annotate.texi: Change edition to 0.5 and date to May 1994.
492 Add index.
493 (Frames): New node, for frame annotation.
494 (Displays): New node, for display annotation.
495
496 * remote.texi (MIPS Remote): Say that set timeout doesn't apply
497 when waiting for your program to stop.
498
499 Fri Apr 29 18:24:46 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
500
501 * annotate.texi (Breakpoint Info): Document annotation of header
502 fields and record annotation.
503
504 Thu Apr 28 07:44:28 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
505
506 * annotate.texi: New file, to document annotations.
507
508 Thu Apr 21 14:20:51 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
509
510 * Makefile.in (clean): Don't remove GDBvn.texi (apparently on Jan
511 16 I meant to make this change but did not). Do remove gdb-cfg.texi.
512
513 Wed Apr 20 11:22:48 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
514
515 * stabs.texinfo (Stab Section Basics): Say what is in .stab
516 section, and say n_strx field is compilation unit relative.
517 * stabs.texinfo: Don't use @code for a.out when it is the name of
518 an object file format.
519
520 Wed Apr 13 20:29:54 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@deneb.cygnus.com)
521
522 * gdb.texinfo: Refer to file names, not path names, per rms
523 convention.
524 (Arguments): Fix typo.
525
526 Thu Mar 24 08:09:12 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
527
528 * stabs.texinfo (Global Variables): Talk about stabs in files
529 where variables are referenced, but not defined.
530
531 Wed Mar 23 07:16:36 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
532
533 * stabs.texinfo: Move stuff on @ and # type descriptors from node
534 Cplusplus to new nodes Member Type Descriptor and Method Type
535 Descriptor. Re-write stuff for #.
536
537 Wed Mar 16 08:20:19 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
538
539 * gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Don't document "set print
540 fast-symbolic-addr off". The bug which it worked around was fixed
541 on 25 Feb 94 in coffread.c, so I'm nuking the command.
542
543 * stabs.texinfo (Alternate Entry Points): New node, rewritten from
544 N_ENTRY node.
545
546 * stabs.texinfo (Type Descriptors): Add 'Y' type descriptor.
547
548 Tue Mar 15 08:43:02 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
549
550 * gdbint.texinfo (Host Conditionals, Target Conditionals): Remove
551 references to ieee-float.c.
552
553 Fri Mar 11 08:09:40 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
554
555 * gdb.texinfo (Set Breaks): Update documentation for tbreak to
556 match what the code actually does.
557
558 Wed Mar 9 19:43:05 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
559
560 * stabs.texinfo (Symbol Descriptors): Add OS9000 symbol descriptor s.
561
562 Tue Mar 1 17:04:43 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@deneb.cygnus.com)
563
564 * stabs.texinfo (Type Descriptors): Add OS9000 type descriptors c,
565 i, and b.
566
567 Wed Feb 23 10:44:18 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@rtl.cygnus.com)
568
569 * stabs.texinfo: Document N_RBRAC as function relative for COFF as
570 well as for ELF and SOM. Unify the descriptions of ELF and SOM
571 as "stabs in sections" rather than just saying "ELF and SOM".
572 Also make that stuff apply to COFF.
573
574 Fri Feb 18 08:25:58 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
575
576 * gdb.texinfo (Formatting Documentation): Change GhostScript to
577 Ghostscript.
578
579 Fri Feb 4 06:31:31 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
580
581 * gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): When talking about "step"
582 versus functions without line numbers, also mention stepping into
583 them as well as "step" when you are in them. Tell the user how to
584 deal with the situation. Add comment about "debugging information".
585
586 Thu Feb 3 11:39:59 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
587
588 * stabs.texinfo (Enumerations): Document restriction on where
589 enumeration types can appear and still win with GDB.
590
591 Wed Feb 2 11:29:17 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
592
593 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Document format for type
594 -16.
595
596 Thu Jan 27 16:53:56 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
597
598 * gdb.texinfo (Selection, Frame Info): Update information about
599 arbitrary frame specficiations.
600
601 Wed Jan 26 15:31:57 1994 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
602
603 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: general editing pass prior to Net release
604
605 Tue Jan 25 12:12:04 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
606
607 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Discuss continuing stabs with ?.
608
609 Wed Jan 19 06:39:24 1994 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
610
611 * stabs.texinfo (Non-Stab Symbol Types): Mention N_SET* | N_EXT.
612
613 Sun Jan 16 12:43:32 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
614
615 * stabs.texinfo: Re-do stuff about C_BSTAT and move from XCOFF
616 Differences node to Statics node.
617 (Statics): Discuss XCOFF use of V symbol descriptor.
618
619 * Makefile.in: Remove refcard.dvi and GDBvn.texi in realclean,
620 not clean.
621
622 Wed Jan 12 21:29:54 1994 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
623
624 * gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Document `set print
625 fast-symbolic-addr' and improve the doc for some other
626 `set print's.
627
628 Mon Jan 3 17:23:07 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
629
630 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Talk about defining several type
631 numbers at once.
632 Fix lint regarding changing node ELF Transformations to
633 ELF and SOM Transformations.
634
635 Fri Dec 31 00:42:43 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
636
637 * stabs.texinfo: Insert Peter Kessler's name as inventor (I think).
638
639 Tue Dec 28 09:30:40 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
640
641 * stabs.texinfo (Cross-References): `::' is for nested types only
642 within <>.
643 (Structures): Document static members.
644
645 Mon Dec 27 13:55:04 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
646
647 * stabs.texinfo: Document S type attribute.
648
649 Sun Dec 26 20:46:36 1993 Jeffrey A. Law (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)
650
651 * stabs.texinfo: Add notes about stabs-in-som where appropriate.
652
653 Fri Dec 3 19:13:19 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
654
655 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix a few typos.
656
657 Sun Nov 28 18:06:25 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
658
659 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: formatting improvements
660
661 * gdb.texinfo (New Features): mention threads.
662 (Summary, C): fix xrefs in newly contributed text.
663 (Threads): index entries, clarifications, example
664 (passim): minor typos fixed, phrasing improvements
665
666 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): rephrase text on ^C and add index
667 entries; (Server): explain use of gdbserver w/real-time systems,
668 add example of conflicting TCP port; (MIPS Remote) break up
669 running text into table, highlighting commands, and add example.
670
671 Wed Nov 24 14:15:56 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
672
673 * refcard.tex: avoid bad linebreaks even when REFEDITS=psrc.sed
674
675 Fri Nov 12 16:10:58 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
676
677 * stabs.texinfo (Nested Symbols): New node.
678 (String Field, Symbol Descriptors, Cross-References): Refer to it.
679
680 Thu Nov 11 13:26:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
681
682 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs in ELF): Clarify how Bbss.bss work with respect
683 to picking which Bbss.bss symbol to use, and (because there seems to
684 be no good way of doing it) re-write some of the text to make it
685 sound like Bbss.bss isn't such a great idea after all (as currently
686 designed).
687
688 * gdb.texinfo (C): In addition to saying people have to use g++ for
689 good results, say they have to use stabs. Specifically say cfront
690 doesn't work well.
691 (Summary): Merge in information on Modula-2, Pascal, and Chill from
692 the gdb README. Add xrefs to places where the support for the various
693 languages is described in detail.
694
695 Mon Nov 8 11:47:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
696
697 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up stuff about visibility and virtual
698 characters.
699
700 * stabs.texinfo (N_M2C): Cite Sun doc.
701
702 Fri Nov 5 16:27:27 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
703
704 * gdb.texinfo: updates re threads.
705 * remote.texinfo: avoid index entries starting with digits.
706
707 Tue Nov 2 09:08:37 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
708
709 * stabs.texinfo (Enumerations): Talk about large, negative and
710 octal values. Clean up cross reference to type attributes.
711 (String Field): Say that GDB 4.11 supports size attribute.
712
713 Sun Oct 31 13:31:10 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
714
715 * remote.texi (VxWorks Remote): Clarify that rebuilding VxWorks kernel
716 is a mandatory step. Make the stuff about that more concise.
717
718 Wed Oct 27 00:25:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
719
720 * stabs.texinfo (Class Names): New node.
721
722 * gdb.texinfo (Command Files): Explain order of init file reading.
723
724 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Talk about getting the serial driver
725 to deal with ^C sent by gdb to stop the remote system.
726
727 Mon Oct 25 03:25:41 1993 Tom Lord (lord@cygnus.com)
728
729 * libgdb.texinfo (I/O): incorporated better phrasing from rich.
730
731 * libgdb.texinfo (Defining Commands): made the DOC arg
732 to gdb_define_app_command a char * instead of char **
733 per a suggestion from kingdon.
734
735 * libgdb.texinfo: total rewrite from a different starting
736 premise.
737
738 Wed Oct 20 18:07:44 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
739
740 * stabs.texinfo (Local Variable Parameters): Re-write paragraph on
741 floats passed as doubles (to improve clarity).
742
743 Tue Oct 19 14:21:18 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
744
745 * gdb.texinfo (Source Path): index entries for $cwd, $pdir
746
747 * a4rc.sed: update to work with Andreas Vogel papersize params
748
749 * refcard.tex: use Andreas Vogel simplifications of papersize
750 params; remove useless version info; update copyright date.
751
752 Tue Oct 19 10:46:22 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
753
754 * gdb.texinfo (Symbols): Add class NAME to doc for ptype.
755
756 Tue Oct 12 09:11:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
757
758 * gdb.texinfo (Files): Say what address the load command loads it at.
759
760 * stabs.texinfo (Common Blocks): Minor cleanups.
761
762 * stabs.texinfo: Update ld stabs in elf relocation to reflect the fact
763 that Sun has backed away from the linker kludge and thus the relevant
764 issue is changes to the SunPRO tools, not the Solaris linker.
765
766 * stabs.texinfo (Traditional Integer Types): Clean up description
767 of octal bounds a little bit. Document extra leading zeroes.
768
769 Thu Oct 7 16:15:37 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
770
771 * gdb.texinfo (Signaling): Update for symbolic symbol names
772 and add a section explaining the difference between the GDB
773 signal command and the shell kill utility.
774
775 Wed Oct 6 13:23:01 1993 Tom Lord (lord@rtl.cygnus.com)
776
777 * libgdb.texinfo: added `@' to braces that were unescaped.
778
779 Mon Oct 4 10:42:18 1993 Tom Lord (lord@rtl.cygnus.com)
780
781 * libgdb.texinfo: new file. Spec for the gdb library.
782
783 Sun Oct 3 15:26:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
784
785 * stabs.texinfo (Include Files): Fix typo (start -> end).
786
787 Thu Sep 30 18:24:56 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
788
789 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: assorted small improvements, mostly
790 from Melissa at FSF's editing pass.
791
792 Thu Sep 30 11:54:38 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
793
794 * gdb.texinfo: Remove stuff about ar and 14 character filenames.
795 I believe this was fixed by the 13 Sep 89 change to print_frame_info.
796 Also, modern versions of ar like BSD 4.4 or SVR4 don't have this bug.
797
798 Wed Sep 22 21:22:11 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
799
800 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Discuss 386 call gates.
801
802 Sat Sep 18 17:10:44 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@poseidon.cygnus.com)
803
804 * stabs.texinfo (Based Variables): New node.
805
806 Thu Sep 16 17:48:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cirdan.cygnus.com)
807
808 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Re-write discussions of
809 names, sizes, and formats to suggest how not to lose.
810
811 Sat Sep 11 09:35:11 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@poseidon.cygnus.com)
812
813 * stabs.texinfo (Methods): Fix typo.
814
815 Fri Sep 10 06:34:20 1993 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
816
817 * gdb.texinfo: Fix a few typos.
818
819 Wed Sep 8 09:11:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
820
821 * gdb.texinfo: Clarify how well it works with Fortran.
822
823 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF, Statics, ELF Transformations):
824 More on relocating stabs in ELF files.
825
826 Tue Sep 7 13:45:02 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
827
828 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF): Talk about N_FUN value.
829
830 Mon Sep 6 19:23:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
831
832 * stabs.texinfo (Local Variable Parameters): Talk about nameless
833 parameters on VAX.
834
835 Fri Sep 3 17:06:08 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
836
837 * gdb.texinfo: @up/@down -> @raisesections/@lowersections
838
839 Fri Sep 3 12:04:15 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
840
841 * stabs.texinfo: Make info author notice match the TeX author notice.
842
843 Tue Aug 31 13:21:06 1993 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
844
845 * stabs.texinfo: Initial-caps all words in node names and
846 non-trivial words in section names.
847
848 Mon Aug 30 11:13:16 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
849
850 * stabs.texinfo: Many minor cleanups.
851
852 * stabs.texinfo: Remove @deffn except from Expanded Reference node.
853
854 Sat Aug 28 12:08:09 1993 David J. MacKenzie (djm@edison.eng.umd.edu)
855
856 * stabs.texinfo: Remove full description of big example.
857 It's not really helpful; just use pieces of it where appropriate.
858 Add more Texinfo formatting directives (@samp, etc.).
859 Use @deffn to define stab types.
860 Eliminate some wordiness. Break up some nodes.
861 Add an (alphabetized) index of symbol types.
862 Use consistent capitalization style in node and section names.
863
864 Thu Aug 26 06:36:31 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@deneb.cygnus.com)
865
866 * gdb.texinfo: Change typo "Two two" to "The two".
867
868 Sun Aug 22 12:15:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
869
870 * stabs.texinfo (XCOFF-differences): Remove references to
871 non-existent types N_DECL and N_RPSYM.
872
873 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Say that type attributes bug is
874 fixed in GDB 4.10, since it is.
875
876 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up djm cleanups, and more cleanups of my own.
877
878 Sat Aug 21 04:32:28 1993 David MacKenzie (djm@cygnus.com)
879
880 * stabs.texinfo: Formatting cleanups.
881
882 Fri Aug 20 20:49:53 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
883
884 * stabs.texinfo: When explaining the n_type of a stab, standardize
885 how we do it ('#' as a comment indicator, "36 is N_FUN" as text,
886 no tabs, use @r).
887 (Global Variables): Clean up.
888
889 Tue Aug 17 15:57:27 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
890
891 * stabs.texinfo (Stack Variables): Re-write.
892
893 Mon Aug 16 21:20:08 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
894
895 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs-in-elf): Talk about getting the start
896 addresses of a source file. Also revise formatting.
897 Change "object module" or "object file" to "source file".
898 Various: Miscellaneous cleanups.
899
900 Thu Aug 12 15:11:51 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
901
902 * stabs.texinfo: Point to mangling info in gcc's gpcompare.texi.
903
904 Tue Aug 10 16:57:49 1993 Stan Shebs (shebs@rtl.cygnus.com)
905
906 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed many nonsensical machine-collected
907 host and target conditionals, described some of the remainder.
908
909 Tue Aug 10 13:28:30 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
910
911 * gdbint.texinfo (Getting Started): Use @itemize, not @table.
912
913 * gdbint.texinfo (Top): Add name to @top line, and re-write the
914 paragraph which follows.
915
916 * gdbint.texinfo (Host): Use @code not @samp for Makefile
917 variables. Looks better and avoids overful hbox.
918
919 Fri Jul 30 18:26:21 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
920
921 * stabs.texinfo (Procedures): Improve stuff on nested functions.
922
923 Thu Jul 29 15:10:58 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
924
925 * remote.texi: (MIPS Remote) clearer doc for set/show timeout,
926 retransmit-timeout
927
928 Thu Jul 29 13:16:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
929
930 * gdbint.texinfo: Update statement about `some ancient Unix
931 systems, like Ultrix 4.0' to Ultrix 4.2.
932
933 Wed Jul 28 15:26:53 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@el_bosque.cygnus.com)
934
935 * h8-cfg.texi, all-cfg.texi: new flag GDBSERVER
936
937 * Makefile.in: depend on remote.texi rather than gdbinv-s.texi
938
939 * remote.texi: (Server) New node on gdbserver. (Remote Serial,
940 ST2000 Remote, MIPS Remote): mention `host:port' syntax for TCP.
941
942 * remote.texi: new name for former gdbinv-s.texi
943
944 * gdb.texinfo: use remote.texi rather than gdbinv-s.texi
945
946 Wed Jul 28 08:26:24 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
947
948 * gdbinv-s.texi: Documented timeout and retransmit-timeout
949 variables for MIPS remote debugging protocol.
950
951 Mon Jul 26 13:00:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
952
953 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): FORTRAN LOGICAL fix.
954
955 Tue Jul 20 16:30:41 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@deneb.cygnus.com)
956
957 * Makefile.in (refcard.dvi): Use srcdir where necessary.
958
959 Mon Jul 19 12:02:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@cygnus.com)
960
961 * gdb.texinfo: repair conditional bugs in text markup
962
963 Fri Jul 16 18:57:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
964
965 * gdb.texinfo, all-cfg.texi, h8-cfg.texi: introduce MOD2 switch
966 to select Modula-2 material.
967
968 Thu Jul 15 13:15:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
969
970 * stabs.texinfo: Cleanups regarding statics.
971
972 * gdbinv-s.texi (Bootstrapping): Document exceptionHandler.
973 (Debug Session): Mention exceptionHandler. Add xref to Bootstrapping.
974
975 Mon Jul 12 13:37:02 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
976
977 * stabs.texinfo: N_MAIN is sometimes used for C.
978
979 Fri Jul 9 09:47:02 1993 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
980
981 * gdbint.texinfo (Host, Target Conditionals): Remove TM_FILE_OVERRIDE.
982
983 Tue Jul 6 12:41:28 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
984
985 * gdbint.texinfo (Target Conditionals): Remove NO_TYPEDEFS,
986 removed from the code by Kingdon.
987
988 Tue Jul 6 12:24:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
989
990 * gdb.texinfo (Break Commands): Remove stuff about flushing terminal
991 input when evaluating breakpoint conditions; the bug has been fixed.
992
993 * gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): Argument to "continue"
994 sets the ignore count to N-1, not to N.
995
996 Thu Jul 1 14:57:42 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
997
998 * refcard.tex (\hoffset): correct longstanding error to match
999 intended offset; avoids cutting off edge on some printers
1000
1001 Wed Jun 30 18:23:06 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1002
1003 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Say that order of stabs is significant.
1004
1005 Fri Jun 25 21:34:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1006
1007 * stabs.texinfo (Common Blocks): Say what Sun FORTRAN does.
1008
1009 Fri Jun 25 16:15:10 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1010
1011 * Makefile.in: (REFEDITS) new var to control whether PS or CM
1012 fonts and whether US or A4 paper for GDB refcard; (refcard.dvi)
1013 collect sed edits if any, apply to refcard before formatting;
1014 (refcard.ps) stop implying PS fonts if PS output requested;
1015 (lrefcard.ps) delete extra target for variant PS fonts
1016
1017 * refcard.tex: parametrize papersize dependent info, collect
1018 in easily replaced spot
1019
1020 * a4rc.sed: new file, edits to refcard for A4 paper
1021
1022 Fri Jun 25 14:21:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1023
1024 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Type -16 is 4 bytes.
1025
1026 Wed Jun 23 15:02:50 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1027
1028 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Minor character cleanups.
1029
1030 Tue Jun 22 16:31:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1031
1032 * stabs.texinfo: Express disapproval of 'D' symbol descriptor
1033 politely rather than rudely.
1034
1035 Fri Jun 18 19:42:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1036
1037 * stabs.texinfo: Document common blocks.
1038
1039 Fri Jun 18 12:12:57 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
1040
1041 * stabs.texinfo: Add some basic info about stabs-in-elf.
1042
1043 Fri Jun 18 13:57:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1044
1045 * stabs.texinfo (Top): Minor cleanup.
1046
1047 Mon Jun 14 16:16:51 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at rtl.cygnus.com)
1048
1049 * Makefile.in (install-info): remove parentdir support
1050
1051 Tue Jun 15 18:11:39 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1052
1053 * gdb.texinfo (Copying): delete this node and references to it;
1054 RMS says this manual need not carry GPL. (passim): Improvements
1055 from last round at FSF, largely due to Ian Taylor review, and
1056 minor formatting improvements.
1057
1058 * gdbinv-s.texi (passim): Improvements from last round at FSF,
1059 largely due to Ian Taylor review. (Debug Session): minor edits to
1060 new text.
1061
1062 Sun Jun 13 12:52:39 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1063
1064 * Makefile.in (realclean): Remove info and dvi files too.
1065
1066 Sat Jun 12 16:09:22 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1067
1068 * {all,h8}-config.texi: Rename to *-cfg.texi for 14 char filenames.
1069 * Makefile.in: Change accordingly. gdb-config.texi -> gdb-cfg.texi.
1070 * gdb.texinfo: Change accordingly.
1071
1072 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up N_{L,R}BRAC. Discuss what addresses of
1073 N_{L,R}BRAC,N_SLINE are relative to.
1074
1075 Fri Jun 11 15:15:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1076
1077 * Makefile.in (GDBvn.texi): Update atomically.
1078
1079 Wed Jun 9 10:58:16 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1080
1081 * gdbinv-s.texi (Debug Session): Document exceptionHook.
1082
1083 Tue Jun 8 13:42:04 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1084
1085 * gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Move all stuff relating to symbolic
1086 addresses together. Also motivate the set print symbol-filename
1087 command and suggest other solutions.
1088
1089 Tue Jun 1 22:46:43 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
1090
1091 * gdb.texinfo (set print elements): Note that the number of
1092 elements is set to unlimited by "set print elements 0".
1093
1094 Mon May 31 08:06:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1095
1096 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Try to clarify what
1097 NF_LDOUBLE means.
1098 (Stab Types): Include Solaris stab types.
1099 (Procedures): Document Solaris extensions.
1100
1101 Thu May 27 06:20:42 1993 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
1102
1103 * gdb.texinfo: Add `set print symbol-filename' doc.
1104
1105 Wed May 26 00:26:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1106
1107 * stabs.texinfo (Arrays): Talk about type definition vs. type
1108 information.
1109
1110 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting
1111 the trailing semicolon.
1112
1113 Tue May 25 14:49:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1114
1115 * stabs.texinfo (Line Numbers, Source Files): Re-write these two nodes
1116 and merge in other parts of the document addressing these subjects.
1117 gdbint.texinfo (XCOFF): Remove info which is now in stabs.texinfo.
1118
1119 * stabs.texinfo (Subranges, Arrays): Try to explain about the semicolon
1120 at the end of a range type.
1121
1122 * stabs.texinfo (Subranges): "A offset" and "T offset" are not
1123 AIX extensions.
1124
1125 Mon May 24 09:00:33 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1126
1127 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs Format): Misc fixes.
1128
1129 Sat May 22 10:40:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1130
1131 * stabs.texinfo (Constants): Allow an `e' constant to be non-enum.
1132 (Traditional builtin types): Document convex convention for long long.
1133 (Negative builtin types): Discuss type names, and misc fixes.
1134
1135 Fri May 21 11:20:31 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1136
1137 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Document the floating
1138 point types used with @samp{R} type descriptor.
1139 (Symbol Descriptors): Describe how to handle conflict between
1140 different meanings of @samp{P} symbol descriptor.
1141
1142 Thu May 20 13:35:10 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1143
1144 * stabs.texinfo: Remove node Quick Reference and put its children
1145 directly under the main menu.
1146
1147 * stabs.texinfo: Many more changes to bring it into line with
1148 AIX documentation and reality. I think it now has all the
1149 information from the AIX documentation, except that I burned
1150 out when I got to variant records (Pascal and Modula-2) and
1151 all the COBOL types. Oh well, we can add them later when we're
1152 worrying more about those languages.
1153
1154 * stabs.texinfo (Automatic variables): Talk about what it means
1155 to omit the symbol descriptor.
1156
1157 Tue May 18 17:59:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1158
1159 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Add "(sometimes)" when describing
1160 gcc2 behavior with promoted args.
1161
1162 Fri May 14 21:35:29 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1163
1164 * gdb.texinfo: include readline appendices in info version of manual
1165
1166 Fri May 7 11:56:18 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1167
1168 * gdbinv-s.texi (Remote Serial): describe new ^C behavior in
1169 target remote.
1170
1171 * gdb.texinfo (Machine Code): more index entries for disassemble
1172
1173 Fri May 7 10:12:30 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
1174
1175 * Clarify the intended use of the gdb-testers and gdb-patches
1176 mailing lists, and shrink gzip comment.
1177
1178 Thu May 6 16:39:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1179
1180 * gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): do not mention SHELL env var in
1181 DOSHOST configuration of manual.
1182
1183 * gdb.texinfo (MIPS Stack): new node.
1184
1185 * all-config.texi (MIPS) new switch.
1186
1187 * gdbinv-s.texi (Nindy Options) Remove two instances of future
1188 tense; (MIPS Remote) new node.
1189
1190 * gdb.texinfo (passim) rephrases to work around makeinfo @value
1191 bug; (Environment) less passive, other small cleanups in text about
1192 .cshrc/.bashrc; (Invoking GDB) new MIPS Remote menu entry;
1193 (Remote) new MIPS Remote menu entry.
1194
1195 Thu Apr 29 09:36:25 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1196
1197 * stabs.texinfo: Many changes to include information from the
1198 AIX documentation.
1199
1200 * gdb.texinfo (Environment): Mention pitfall with .cshrc.
1201
1202 Tue Apr 27 14:02:57 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1203
1204 * gdbint.texinfo (new node Debugging GDB, elsewhere):
1205 Move a bunch of information from ../README.
1206 (Getting Started): New node.
1207
1208 Fri Apr 23 17:21:13 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1209
1210 * gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo: include Hitachi SH target
1211
1212 * gdb.texinfo: advance manual revision dates to present
1213
1214 * gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo, all-config.texi, h8-config.texi:
1215 stop using silly Roman numerals in @set variable names
1216
1217 Fri Apr 23 07:30:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1218
1219 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Keep trying to get this right.
1220
1221 Wed Apr 21 15:18:47 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1222
1223 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): More on "local parameters".
1224
1225 Mon Apr 19 08:00:51 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1226
1227 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Re-do "local parameters" section.
1228
1229 Sun Apr 18 09:47:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1230
1231 * stabs.texinfo (Symbol descriptors): Re-do using @table and @xref.
1232 (Parameters): Rewrite.
1233 (xcoff-differences, Sun-differences): Minor changes.
1234
1235 Thu Apr 15 02:35:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cacophony.cygnus.com)
1236
1237 * stabs.texinfo: Minor cleanup.
1238
1239 Wed Apr 14 17:31:00 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1240
1241 * gdbint.texinfo: Minor xcoff stuff.
1242
1243 Wed Apr 7 14:11:07 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
1244
1245 * gdbint.texinfo: Update for new config directory structure.
1246 Add info about internal type data structures.
1247
1248 Mon Apr 5 09:06:30 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
1249
1250 * Makefile.in (SFILES_INCLUDED): gdb-config.texi is no longer in
1251 $(srcdir).
1252 (gdb-config.texi): Depend on file in $(srcdir).
1253
1254 Fri Apr 2 16:55:13 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1255
1256 * stabs.texinfo: Fixes about N_SO.
1257
1258 Fri Mar 26 18:00:35 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1259
1260 * gdb.texinfo: include list of nonstandard init file names
1261
1262 * *-config.texi: new switch GENERIC for text that applies *only*
1263 to (usual) multiple-target version of manual
1264
1265 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: Update conditional markup to correct
1266 h8 config
1267
1268 * gdb.texinfo: depend on latest fixed makeinfo, use conditionals
1269 in menus (rather than conditionally selected multiple alternative
1270 menus).
1271
1272 * Makefile.in: define and use DOC_CONFIG var to select
1273 configuration for GDB user manual.
1274
1275 * gdb-config.texi: delete from repository, generate from Makefile.
1276
1277 * all-config.texi: normal `generic' configuration file, formerly
1278 stored as gdb-config.texi
1279
1280 Wed Mar 24 14:03:19 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at poseidon.cygnus.com)
1281
1282 * Makefile.in: add dvi target to build all .dvi files
1283
1284 Tue Mar 23 16:03:24 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1285
1286 * gdb.texinfo, gdvinv-s.texinfo: formatting improvements.
1287
1288 Fri Mar 19 21:46:50 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1289
1290 * gdbint.texinfo: Doc NO_MMALLOC and NO_MMALLOC_CHECK as
1291 host conditionals.
1292 * stabs.texinfo: More array fixes inspired by Jim's.
1293
1294 Fri Mar 19 10:23:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1295
1296 * stabs.texinfo: Fixes re arrays and continuations.
1297
1298 * gdbint.texinfo: Add XCOFF node.
1299
1300 Mon Mar 8 15:52:18 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1301
1302 * gdb.texinfo: Add `set print max-symbolic-offset' doc.
1303
1304 Sun Feb 21 17:09:38 1993 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
1305
1306 * stabs.texinfo: Fix for array types to mention lower bounds.
1307
1308 Thu Feb 18 01:19:49 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1309
1310 * gdbint.texinfo: Update PTRACE_ARG3_TYPE doc, pull PT_*.
1311
1312 Wed Feb 17 08:15:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1313
1314 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE from target defines.
1315
1316 Thu Feb 11 10:38:40 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1317
1318 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix thinko (NM_FILE => NAT_FILE). Found
1319 by Michael Ben-Gershon <mybg@CS.HUJI.AC.IL>.
1320
1321 Wed Feb 10 23:59:19 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1322
1323 * gdbint.texinfo: Eliminate IBM6000_HOST, document IBM6000_TARGET.
1324
1325 Tue Feb 9 18:26:21 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1326
1327 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: misc updates
1328
1329 Sat Feb 6 10:25:47 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1330
1331 * gdbint.texinfo: Brief documentation for longjmp support,
1332 from an email msg by Stu.
1333
1334 Fri Feb 5 14:10:15 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1335
1336 * stabs.texinfo: Fix description of floating point "range"
1337 types (which really define basic types). Reported by Jim Meehan,
1338 <meehan@src.dec.com>.
1339
1340 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove COFF_NO_LONG_FILE_NAMES define, now gone.
1341
1342 Thu Feb 4 13:56:46 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
1343
1344 * gdbint.texinfo: Slightly expand section on supporting a new
1345 object file format.
1346
1347 Thu Feb 4 01:49:04 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1348
1349 * Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Remove psref.tex
1350 intermediate file.
1351
1352 Tue Feb 2 12:18:06 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1353
1354 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: miscellaneous stylistic cleanups
1355
1356 Mon Feb 1 15:35:47 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1357
1358 * gdbinv-s.texi: z8000 simulator target name is just "sim"
1359
1360 * gdbinv-s.texi: Mention that Z8000 simulator can simulate Z8001
1361 as well as Z8002.
1362
1363 Sat Nov 28 06:51:35 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1364
1365 * gdbint.texinfo: Add sections on clean design and on how to send
1366 in changes.
1367
1368 Mon Nov 9 23:57:02 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1369
1370 * gdbint.texinfo: Add how to declare the result of make_cleanup.
1371
1372 Mon Oct 26 11:09:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1373
1374 * gdb.texinfo: Fix typo, reported by Karl Berry.
1375
1376 Fri Oct 23 00:41:21 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1377
1378 * gdb.texinfo: Add opcodes dir to GDB distribution description.
1379
1380 Sat Oct 10 18:04:58 1992 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at cirdan.cygnus.com)
1381
1382 * gdbint.texinfo: fixed a stray email address (needs @@),
1383 added @table @code to node "Native Conditionals"
1384
1385 Tue Sep 22 00:34:15 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1386
1387 * gdbint.texinfo: Describe coding style of GDB.
1388
1389 Mon Sep 21 19:32:16 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1390
1391 * stabs.texinfo: Minor wording changes.
1392
1393 Tue Sep 15 02:57:09 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1394
1395 * gdbint.texinfo: Improve release doc slightly.
1396
1397 Fri Sep 11 01:34:25 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@sphagnum.cygnus.com)
1398
1399 * gdbint.texinfo: Improve doc of GDB config macros.
1400
1401 Wed Sep 9 16:52:06 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1402
1403 * stabs.texinfo: Remove Bothner's changes for C++ nested types.
1404 These will be reinserted when examined.
1405
1406 Mon Aug 24 01:17:55 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1407
1408 * gdbint.texinfo: Make a start at documenting all the #if macros
1409 in GDB. At least list them all, and start separating them into
1410 host-specific and target-specific.
1411
1412 Tue Aug 18 15:59:13 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1413
1414 * gdbinv-s.m4.in: refrain from using @cartouche for just a few
1415 examples (not consistent w others).
1416 gdb.texinfo: issue disclaimer paragraph on cmdline options only
1417 for generic vn of doc
1418
1419 Tue Aug 18 14:53:27 1992 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
1420
1421 * Makefile.in: always create installation directories.
1422
1423 Tue Aug 18 14:11:50 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1424
1425 * gdb.texinfo: in h8 config, do not describe searching commands.
1426
1427 Mon Aug 17 18:07:59 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1428
1429 * gdb.texinfo, none.m4, h8.m4, gdbinv-s.m4.in: improve H8/300
1430 conditionals; introduce a few generic switches that may be
1431 useful for other cross-dev or dos-hosted configs.
1432
1433 * gdb.texinfo: fix typo in "info reg" description
1434
1435 Sun Aug 16 01:16:18 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1436
1437 * stabs.texinfo: Minor updates from running TeX over it.
1438 * Makefile.in (stabs.dvi, stabs.ps): Add.
1439
1440 Sat Aug 15 20:52:24 1992 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
1441
1442 * stabs.texinfo: Stabs documentation, written by Julia Menapace.
1443 First pass at converting it to texinfo.
1444
1445 Sat Aug 15 03:14:59 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1446
1447 * gdb.texinfo, refcard.tex: Document mult args on `info reg'.
1448 * Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Add missing $(srdir).
1449
1450 Fri Aug 14 21:08:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1451
1452 * gdbint.texinfo: Add section on partial symbol tables.
1453
1454 Sat Jun 20 16:31:10 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
1455
1456 * gdb.texinfo: document `set remotedebug' and `set
1457 rstack_high_address'.
1458
1459 Thu May 14 17:09:48 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1460
1461 * gdb.texinfo: slight expansion of new text on reading info files
1462 * gdbinv-s.m4.in: correct and expand info on cross-debugging
1463 H8/300 from DOS.
1464
1465 Tue May 12 12:22:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
1466
1467 * gdb.texinfo: `info user' => `show user'. Noticed by David Taylor.
1468
1469 Mon May 11 19:06:27 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
1470
1471 * gdb.texinfo: Say how to read the `info' files.
1472
1473 Tue May 5 12:11:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
1474
1475 * Makefile.in: gm4 -> m4.
1476
1477 Fri Apr 10 17:50:43 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at rtl.cygnus.com)
1478
1479 * gdb.texinfo: Update for GDB-4.5. Move `Formatting
1480 Documentation' ahead of `Installing GDB' to match README.
1481 Update shared library doc, -readnow and -mapped, and directory
1482 structure (add glob and mmalloc). Update configure doc.
1483
1484 Tue Mar 24 23:28:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
1485
1486 * Makefile.in: remove $(srcdir) from gdb.info rule.
1487
1488 Sat Mar 7 18:44:50 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@rtl.cygnus.com)
1489
1490 * Makefile.in: commented out gdb-all.texinfo rule. This is
1491 temporary.
1492
1493 Wed Feb 26 18:04:40 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
1494
1495 * Makefile.in, configure.in: removed traces of namesubdir,
1496 -subdirs, $(subdir), $(unsubdir), some rcs triggers. Forced
1497 copyrights to '92, changed some from Cygnus to FSF.
1498
1499 Fri Dec 13 09:47:31 1991 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
1500
1501 * gdb.texinfo: Improve how we ask for bug reports.
1502
1503 Tue Dec 10 04:07:21 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
1504
1505 * Makefile.in: infodir belongs in datadir.
1506
1507 Fri Dec 6 23:57:34 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
1508
1509 * Makefile.in: remove spaces following hyphens, bsd make can't
1510 cope. install using INSTALL_DATA. added clean-info. added
1511 standards.text support.
1512
1513 Thu Dec 5 22:46:12 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
1514
1515 * Makefile.in: idestdir and ddestdir go away. Added copyrights
1516 and shift gpl to v2. Added ChangeLog if it didn't exist. docdir
1517 and mandir now keyed off datadir by default.
1518
1519 \f
1520 Local Variables:
1521 mode: indented-text
1522 left-margin: 8
1523 fill-column: 74
1524 version-control: never
1525 End: