From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Pierre Muller Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Update NEWS for v5.1 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B58BACC.1080504@cygnus.com> References: <4.2.0.58.20010720130331.01b65f00@ics.u-strasbg.fr> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00531.html > 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 . 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