NEWS entries for 6.1.1 dwarf changes?

NEWS entries for 6.1.1 dwarf changes?

[Andrew Cagney]

Hello,

These 6.1.1 changes need a NEWS entry, anyone?

2004-05-13  Bryce McKinlay  <mckinlay@redhat.com>

	* dwarf2loc.c (find_location_expression): Use ANOFFSET to adjust
	base_address for shared libraries.

2004-05-11  Nick Roberts  <nickrob@gnu.org>

	* utils.c (defaulted_query): Just use the normal query input type
	when printing the annotations.

2004-05-01  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>

	* dwarf2-frame.c (read_encoded_value): Handle DW_EH_PE_funcrel
	encondings.  Fixes PR gdb/1628.

Andrew

Re: NEWS entries for 6.1.1 dwarf changes?

[Mark Kettenis]

   Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:34:03 -0400
   From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>

   Hello,

   These 6.1.1 changes need a NEWS entry, anyone?

   2004-05-01  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>

	   * dwarf2-frame.c (read_encoded_value): Handle DW_EH_PE_funcrel
	   encondings.  Fixes PR gdb/1628.

   Andrew

Would that be really useful?  This stuff is mentioned in the
ChangeLog.  Oh well, I don't want to hold up the release, so here's
some blurb about the change shown above.

Committed to the branch,

Mark


Index: ChangeLog
from  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>

	* NEWS: Mention fix for PR gdb/1628.

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.138.2.5
diff -u -p -r1.138.2.5 NEWS
--- NEWS 4 Jun 2004 17:03:25 -0000 1.138.2.5
+++ NEWS 11 Jun 2004 14:16:00 -0000
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ systems (Solaris, IRIX).  Ref: server/51
 Older HPUX ANSI C compilers did not accept variable array sizes.  somsolib.c
 has been updated to use constant array sizes.
 
+* Bug fixes
+
+gdb/1628: GDB now handles the DW_EH_PE_funcrel encoding in DWARF Call
+Frame Info.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 6.1:
 
 * Removed --with-mmalloc

Re: NEWS entries for 6.1.1 dwarf changes?

[Andrew Cagney]

>    Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:34:03 -0400
>    From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> 
>    Hello,
> 
>    These 6.1.1 changes need a NEWS entry, anyone?
> 
>    2004-05-01  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
> 
> 	   * dwarf2-frame.c (read_encoded_value): Handle DW_EH_PE_funcrel
> 	   encondings.  Fixes PR gdb/1628.
> 
>    Andrew
> 
> Would that be really useful?  This stuff is mentioned in the
> ChangeLog.

Yes.  The NEWS entries, included in the 6.1.1 announcement, tell the 
user know what was fixed (not how).  Conversely, the ChangeLog (as it 
should) tells us what was changed, not why.

Andrew

 >   Oh well, I don't want to hold up the release, so here's
 > some blurb about the change shown above.

> Committed to the branch,
> 
> Mark

Re: NEWS entries for 6.1.1 dwarf changes?

[Andrew Cagney]

> +* Bug fixes
> +
> +gdb/1628: GDB now handles the DW_EH_PE_funcrel encoding in DWARF Call
> +Frame Info.

Can you include which systems this affects.

Andrew

Re: NEWS entries for 6.1.1 dwarf changes?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:18:33 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> 
> > +* Bug fixes
> > +
> > +gdb/1628: GDB now handles the DW_EH_PE_funcrel encoding in DWARF Call
> > +Frame Info.
> 
> Can you include which systems this affects.

And also, as much as possible, explain the effect of the bugfix so
that programmers who are not necessarily DWARF experts would
understand that.

TIA