Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add gdb/1516

Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add gdb/1516

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Committed.

Michael C

2004-01-27  Michael Chastain  <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>

	* PROBLEMS: add gdb/1516.

[rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add gdb/1516

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

This patch adds a description of gdb/1516 to the PROBLEMS file.
This is a regression with g++ 2.95.3 -gdwarf-2 and we've decided
not to fix it, so I want to document it.

By the way, this file needs (1) a copyright notice and (2) to be
updated from "gdb 6.0" to "gdb 6.1".

Leaving those issues aside -- okay to commit this?

Michael C

2004-01-27  Michael Chastain  <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>

	* PROBLEMS: add gdb/1516.

Index: PROBLEMS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/PROBLEMS,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -c -3 -p -r1.20 PROBLEMS
*** PROBLEMS	24 Oct 2003 17:37:03 -0000	1.20
--- PROBLEMS	27 Jan 2004 06:04:45 -0000
*************** Fortunately the ARM target, in the GDB's
*** 23,28 ****
--- 23,40 ----
  updated so people encountering problems should consider downloading a
  more current GDB (http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/current).
  
+ gdb/1516: [regression] local classes, gcc 2.95.3, dwarf-2
+ 
+ With gcc 2.95.3 and the dwarf-2 debugging format, classes which are
+ defined locally to a function include the demangled name of the function
+ as part of their name.  For example, if a function "foobar" contains a
+ local class definition "Local", gdb will say that the name of the class
+ type is "foobar__Fi.0:Local".
+ 
+ This applies only to classes where the class type is defined inside a
+ function, not to variables defined with types that are defined somewhere
+ outside any function (which most types are).
+ 
  gdb/1091: Constructor breakpoints ignored
  gdb/1193: g++ 3.3 creates multiple constructors: gdb 5.3 can't set breakpoints
  

Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add gdb/1516

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:07:27 -0500 (EST)
> From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
> 
> Leaving those issues aside -- okay to commit this?

Yes, thanks.

I'm not sure about the copyright issue; Andrew?

Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add gdb/1516

[Andrew Cagney]

> By the way, this file needs (1) a copyright notice and (2) to be
> updated from "gdb 6.0" to "gdb 6.1".

I'm going to edit it after the branch is cut - when we know the release 
really is "6.1" but given its a done deal, feel free to tweak it now.

For (C), what of NEWS, others?  Not sure what the text should be.   Is 
there something we can steal from GCC?

Andrew

Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add gdb/1516

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:52:20 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> 
> For (C), what of NEWS, others?  Not sure what the text should be.   Is 
> there something we can steal from GCC?

FWIW, the Emacs's README doesn't have any copyright notice, while
PROBLEMS has this (near its end):

  Copyright 1987,88,89,93,94,95,96,97,98,1999,2001,2002
  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Copying and redistribution of this file with or without modification
  are permitted without royalty provided this notice is preserved.

while its NEWS starts like this:

  Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  See the end for copying conditions.

and the end says:

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Copyright information:

  Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
  of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
  copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
  thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.

  Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
  of this document, or of portions of it,
  under the above conditions, provided also that they
  carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.