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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Pierre Muller <muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>, gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Update NEWS for v5.1
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B58BACC.1080504@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20010720130331.01b65f00@ics.u-strasbg.fr>

> About Pascal language addition in NEWS.
> 
> 
> What about adding this text in front of the missing features ?
> 
> * Partial support for debugging Pascal programs.
> 
>  Support for pascal language is partially included
>  Available features are:
> -- Support for pascal specific types like sets.
> -- Automatic recognition of pascal sources based on standard extensions
> -- Pascal like display of types, variables and functions
> -- Pascal expression parser
>  However many important features are not yetsupported.


Too negative, you'll never get a job in marketing :-)  How about 
something like ...

* Support for debugging Pascal programmes.

GDB now includes support for the debugging of Pascal programmes.  This 
includes the ability to <list of things that do work>.

There are still a few limiations, of note ....
(Contributed by ....)


As to the more general question of ``incomplete support''.  This would 
be like me demanding test results when someone submits a new port and 
then awarding a grade (broken, alpha, beta, incomplete, ...) dependant 
on how good/bad they were.  No, I'm not going to do that.

	Andrew


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-20 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-19  9:20 Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-19 10:28 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-20  1:52 ` Pierre Muller
2001-07-20  3:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-20  4:20 ` Pierre Muller
2001-07-20  7:11   ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-20 16:12   ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
     [not found] <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010722133856.6415A-100000@is>
2001-07-23 12:39 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-25  7:47   ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-25  8:12     ` Eli Zaretskii

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