2003-01-29 Andrew Cagney * stabs.texinfo (Member Type Descriptor): Clarify description of `@'. Suggested by Ben Hutchings. Index: stabs.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.8 stabs.texinfo --- stabs.texinfo 2 Jan 2003 14:36:48 -0000 1.8 +++ stabs.texinfo 30 Jan 2003 03:06:26 -0000 @@ -2724,11 +2724,22 @@ @node Member Type Descriptor @section The @samp{@@} Type Descriptor -The @samp{@@} type descriptor is for a member (class and variable) type. -It is followed by type information for the offset basetype, a comma, and -type information for the type of the field being pointed to. (FIXME: -this is acknowledged to be gibberish. Can anyone say what really goes -here?). +The @samp{@@} type descriptor is used together with the @samp{*} type +descriptor for a pointer-to-non-static-member-data type. It is followed +by type information for the class (or union), a comma, and type +information for the member data. + +The following C++ source: + +@smallexample +typedef int A::*int_in_a; +@end smallexample + +generates the following stab: + +@smallexample +.stabs "int_in_a:t20=*21=@@19,1",128,0,0,0 +@end smallexample Note that there is a conflict between this and type attributes (@pxref{String Field}); both use type descriptor @samp{@@}.