From: Thomas Quinot <quinot@adacore.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:37:51 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: 2008-08-08  Thomas Quinot  <quinot@adacore.com>
X-Git-Tag: releases/gcc-4.4.0~3241
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35e546dc65e821dc8a41585cbe4937286d77fbf9;p=thirdparty%2Fgcc.git

2008-08-08  Thomas Quinot  <quinot@adacore.com>

	* g-sercom.ads:
	(Name): Document application scope (only legacy PC serial ports on
	Linux and Windows).

From-SVN: r138873
---

diff --git a/gcc/ada/g-sercom.ads b/gcc/ada/g-sercom.ads
index e425d9d5550e..8b4c55906846 100644
--- a/gcc/ada/g-sercom.ads
+++ b/gcc/ada/g-sercom.ads
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@ package GNAT.Serial_Communications is
    --  A serial com port name
 
    function Name (Number : Positive) return Port_Name;
-   --  Returns the port name for the given port number
+   --  Returns a possible port name for the given legacy PC architecture serial
+   --  port number (COM<number>: on Windows, ttyS<number-1> on Linux).
+   --  Note that this function does not support other kinds of serial ports
+   --  nor operating systems other than Windows and Linux. For all other
+   --  cases, an explicit port name can be passed directly to Open.
 
    type Data_Rate is
      (B1200, B2400, B4800, B9600, B19200, B38400, B57600, B115200);