[RFA/doco 2/4] gdb/NEWS: Document that GDB now supports DWARF-based fixed point types

Joel Brobecker
2020-11-22T11:56:46Z

gdb/ChangeLog:

* NEWS: Add entry documenting support for DWARF-based fixed
point types.
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gdb/NEWS | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 792f4860975..d75992e78ef 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@
$HOME/.gdbinit. On Apple hosts the search order is instead:
$HOME/Library/Preferences/gdb/gdbinit, $HOME/.gdbinit.

+* GDB now supports fixed point types which are described in DWARF
+ as base types with a fixed-point encoding. Additionally, support
+ for the DW_AT_GNU_numerator and DW_AT_GNU_denominator has also
+ been added.
+
+ For Ada, this allows support for fixed point types without requiring
+ the use of the GNAT encoding (based on information added to the type's
+ name following a GNAT-specific format).
+
* New commands

set debug event-loop
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