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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [RFA/doco] Minor rewording regarding implicit "use/with"
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080813161653.GA5060@adacore.com> (raw)

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Hello,

One on my collegues who is one of our Ada "lawyers" suggested the
following rewording to make it more accurate.

2008-08-13  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>

        * gdb.texinfo (Ada Mode Intro): Improve the documentation regarding
        the direct visibility of all names in user-written packages.

OK to commit?

Thanks,
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Joel

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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 5c851ee..1ef4c8a 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -11071,11 +11071,11 @@ are not particularly important to the @value{GDBN} user.
 That brevity is important to the @value{GDBN} user.
 @end itemize
 
-Thus, for brevity, the debugger acts as if there were 
-implicit @code{with} and @code{use} clauses in effect for all user-written 
-packages, making it unnecessary to fully qualify most names with 
-their packages, regardless of context.  Where this causes ambiguity, 
-@value{GDBN} asks the user's intent.
+Thus, for brevity, the debugger acts as if all names declared in
+user-written packages are directly visible, even if they are not visible
+according to Ada rules, thus making it unnecessary to fully qualify most
+names with their packages, regardless of context.  Where this causes
+ambiguity, @value{GDBN} asks the user's intent.
 
 The debugger will start in Ada mode if it detects an Ada main program. 
 As for other languages, it will enter Ada mode when stopped in a program that

             reply	other threads:[~2008-08-13 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-13 16:17 Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-08-13 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-14  2:34   ` Joel Brobecker

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