Re: pushed: Add support for DWARF-based fixed point types

Pedro Alves
2020-11-20T14:09:01Z

Hi Joel,

On 11/15/20 8:35 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just finished pusing the following patch series to branch master.
>
> - gdb/configure: Add --with-libgmp-prefix option
> - gdb: Make GMP a required dependency for building GDB
> - gmp-utils: New API to simply use of GMP's
> - Move uinteger_pow gdb/valarith.c to gdb/utils.c and
> - Add support for printing value of DWARF-based
> - fix printing of DWARF fixed-point type objects with
> - Add ptype support for DWARF-based fixed-point types
> - Add support for fixed-point type arithmetic
> - Add support for fixed-point type comparison operators

I noticed now that this didn't come with a NEWS entry.

Shouldn't it have one? I.e.:

- mention that GMP is now a dependency for building GDB

- support for fixed point types seems NEWS worthy too

Also, gdb/README documents configure options and we mention --with-mpfr there.
Shouldn't we mention --with-libgmp-prefix there too?