From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove note about C++ demangler from Rust documentation
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:20:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86zf4fo5j8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260310184653.983690-1-tromey@adacore.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:46:53 -0600)
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:46:53 -0600
>
> A note about the C++ demangler in the Rust documentation hasn't been
> accurate for a while. Also, it probably isn't clear to users how this
> related to the next bit of text in the same bullet point. This patch
> removes the obsolete comment.
> ---
> gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 10 ++++------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> index 63f6fe39a55..ceb69669ea6 100644
> --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> @@ -18396,12 +18396,10 @@ to call generic functions or otherwise refer to generic items, you
> will have to specify the type parameters manually.
>
> @item
> -@value{GDBN} currently uses the C@t{++} demangler for Rust. In most
> -cases this does not cause any problems. However, in an expression
> -context, completing a generic function name will give syntactically
> -invalid results. This happens because Rust requires the @samp{::}
> -operator between the function name and its generic arguments. For
> -example, @value{GDBN} might provide a completion like
> +In an expression context, completing a generic function name will give
> +syntactically invalid results. This happens because Rust requires the
> +@samp{::} operator between the function name and its generic
> +arguments. For example, @value{GDBN} might provide a completion like
> @code{crate::f<u32>}, where the parser would require
> @code{crate::f::<u32>}.
OK, thanks.
Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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