* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
@ 2004-03-17 1:29 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Michael Elizabeth Chastain
0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain @ 2004-03-17 1:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: carlton, eliz; +Cc: drow, gdb-patches
That's a good point. How about:
GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
"Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
My two cents: looks okay to me.
Michael C
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-03-17 1:29 [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS Michael Elizabeth Chastain
@ 2004-03-19 0:09 ` Michael Elizabeth Chastain
0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain @ 2004-03-19 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: carlton, eliz; +Cc: drow, gdb-patches
That's a good point. How about:
GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
"Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
My two cents: looks okay to me.
Michael C
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-03-19 0:09 ` David Carlton
2004-03-17 0:29 ` David Carlton
@ 2004-03-19 0:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-17 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-17 17:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1 sibling, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2004-03-19 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Carlton; +Cc: gdb-patches, drow
> From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:29:06 -0800
>
> > IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> > you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> > and now does.
>
> That's a good point. How about:
>
> GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
> improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
> is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
> Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
> namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
> "Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
> frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
> addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
> a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
This is okay with me.
> I'm still not entirely thrilled with it, especially that last
> sentence; I don't want to go into _too_ many details, but I'm not sure
> I've found the right balance.
I think your text strikes the right balance, one that is appropriate
to NEWS.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-03-17 17:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
@ 2004-03-19 0:09 ` David Carlton
2004-03-17 17:39 ` David Carlton
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1 sibling, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: David Carlton @ 2004-03-19 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb-patches
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:32:30 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:13:31AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> This is okay with me.
> And with me also. Thanks, David!
Thanks everybody for the feedback; committed to mainline and 6.1.
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com
2004-03-17 David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
* NEWS: Mention C++ nested types and namespaces
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.139
diff -u -p -r1.139 NEWS
--- NEWS 13 Mar 2004 13:11:53 -0000 1.139
+++ NEWS 17 Mar 2004 17:34:24 -0000
@@ -38,6 +38,18 @@ GDB support for location expressions has
arguments and frame bases. Older versions of GDB could crash when they
encountered these.
+* C++ nested types and namespaces
+
+GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
+improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
+is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
+Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
+namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
+"Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
+frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In addition,
+if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within a namespace,
+GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
+
* New native configurations
NetBSD/amd64 x86_64-*-netbsd*
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-03-17 17:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-03-19 0:09 ` David Carlton
@ 2004-03-19 0:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1 sibling, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Jacobowitz @ 2004-03-19 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb-patches
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:13:31AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:29:06 -0800
> >
> > > IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> > > you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> > > and now does.
> >
> > That's a good point. How about:
> >
> > GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
> > improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
> > is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
> > Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
> > namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
> > "Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
> > frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
> > addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
> > a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
>
> This is okay with me.
And with me also. Thanks, David!
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-02-11 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-16 19:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
@ 2004-03-19 0:09 ` David Carlton
2004-03-17 0:29 ` David Carlton
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
1 sibling, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: David Carlton @ 2004-03-19 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: gdb-patches, drow
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:31:44 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> said:
>> From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
>> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:15:27 -0800
>> +* C++ nested types and namespaces
>> +
>> +GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
>> +improved. We recommend that you use the DWARF 2 debugging format to
>> +get the full benefit from this; this is the default for recent
>> +versions of GCC on most platforms.
>> +
> IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> and now does.
That's a good point. How about:
GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
"Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
I'm still not entirely thrilled with it, especially that last
sentence; I don't want to go into _too_ many details, but I'm not sure
I've found the right balance.
I'm also trying to think of what else has changed - the patches have
been long enough that I would think I'd be able to point to more
features, but I guess it really is the case that fixing names of types
and teaching GDB about namespaces simply required a lot of
infrastructure changes...
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-03-19 0:09 ` David Carlton
@ 2004-03-17 17:39 ` David Carlton
0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: David Carlton @ 2004-03-17 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb-patches
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:32:30 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:13:31AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> This is okay with me.
> And with me also. Thanks, David!
Thanks everybody for the feedback; committed to mainline and 6.1.
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com
2004-03-17 David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
* NEWS: Mention C++ nested types and namespaces
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.139
diff -u -p -r1.139 NEWS
--- NEWS 13 Mar 2004 13:11:53 -0000 1.139
+++ NEWS 17 Mar 2004 17:34:24 -0000
@@ -38,6 +38,18 @@ GDB support for location expressions has
arguments and frame bases. Older versions of GDB could crash when they
encountered these.
+* C++ nested types and namespaces
+
+GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
+improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
+is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
+Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
+namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
+"Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
+frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In addition,
+if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within a namespace,
+GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
+
* New native configurations
NetBSD/amd64 x86_64-*-netbsd*
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-17 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2004-03-17 17:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-03-19 0:09 ` David Carlton
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1 sibling, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Jacobowitz @ 2004-03-17 17:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb-patches
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:13:31AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:29:06 -0800
> >
> > > IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> > > you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> > > and now does.
> >
> > That's a good point. How about:
> >
> > GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
> > improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
> > is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
> > Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
> > namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
> > "Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
> > frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
> > addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
> > a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
>
> This is okay with me.
And with me also. Thanks, David!
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2004-03-17 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-17 17:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1 sibling, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2004-03-17 6:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Carlton; +Cc: gdb-patches, drow
> From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:29:06 -0800
>
> > IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> > you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> > and now does.
>
> That's a good point. How about:
>
> GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
> improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
> is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
> Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
> namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
> "Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
> frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
> addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
> a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
This is okay with me.
> I'm still not entirely thrilled with it, especially that last
> sentence; I don't want to go into _too_ many details, but I'm not sure
> I've found the right balance.
I think your text strikes the right balance, one that is appropriate
to NEWS.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-03-19 0:09 ` David Carlton
@ 2004-03-17 0:29 ` David Carlton
2004-03-19 0:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
1 sibling, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: David Carlton @ 2004-03-17 0:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: gdb-patches, drow
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:31:44 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> said:
>> From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
>> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:15:27 -0800
>> +* C++ nested types and namespaces
>> +
>> +GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
>> +improved. We recommend that you use the DWARF 2 debugging format to
>> +get the full benefit from this; this is the default for recent
>> +versions of GCC on most platforms.
>> +
> IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> and now does.
That's a good point. How about:
GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
"Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
I'm still not entirely thrilled with it, especially that last
sentence; I don't want to go into _too_ many details, but I'm not sure
I've found the right balance.
I'm also trying to think of what else has changed - the patches have
been long enough that I would think I'd be able to point to more
features, but I guess it really is the case that fixing names of types
and teaching GDB about namespaces simply required a lot of
infrastructure changes...
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-02-11 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2004-02-16 19:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-03-19 0:09 ` David Carlton
1 sibling, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Jacobowitz @ 2004-02-16 19:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb-patches
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:31:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:15:27 -0800
> >
> > +* C++ nested types and namespaces
> > +
> > +GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
> > +improved. We recommend that you use the DWARF 2 debugging format to
> > +get the full benefit from this; this is the default for recent
> > +versions of GCC on most platforms.
> > +
>
> IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> and now does.
Yes, I think this would be nice. OTOH, I'm willig to approve it as
posted too. Up to you, David.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
2004-02-11 18:15 David Carlton
@ 2004-02-11 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-16 19:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-03-19 0:09 ` David Carlton
0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2004-02-11 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Carlton; +Cc: gdb-patches, drow
> From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:15:27 -0800
>
> +* C++ nested types and namespaces
> +
> +GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
> +improved. We recommend that you use the DWARF 2 debugging format to
> +get the full benefit from this; this is the default for recent
> +versions of GCC on most platforms.
> +
IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
and now does.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread
* [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
@ 2004-02-11 18:15 David Carlton
2004-02-11 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: David Carlton @ 2004-02-11 18:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb-patches; +Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz
I'm pretty much done merging in my C++ changes (I'll post another
message with more details in a sec), so it seems like it's time to
mention it in NEWS. Any suggested improvements to the wording in the
following patch?
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com
2004-02-11 David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
* NEWS: Mention C++ nested types and namespaces.
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.135
diff -u -p -r1.135 NEWS
--- NEWS 5 Feb 2004 19:56:33 -0000 1.135
+++ NEWS 11 Feb 2004 18:10:42 -0000
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ GDB support for location expressions has
arguments and frame bases. Older versions of GDB could crash when they
encountered these.
+* C++ nested types and namespaces
+
+GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
+improved. We recommend that you use the DWARF 2 debugging format to
+get the full benefit from this; this is the default for recent
+versions of GCC on most platforms.
+
* New native configurations
NetBSD/amd64 x86_64-*-netbsd*
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