From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 564 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2004 17:32:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 470 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2004 17:32:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2004 17:32:30 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3eu6-0002UW-2v for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:32:30 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:09:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS Message-ID: <20040317173230.GA9547@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <6654-Wed11Feb2004213143+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00391.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20040319000900.iyCe9GdjZ-c2AT_-bpVWR_6E4UNWaKi7kacV9jqhcBs@z> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:13:31AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: David Carlton > > 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