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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: RFA: documentation change for ambiguous linespec patch
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3mxbypfq1.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)

This needs a doc review.

To my surprise, the ambiguous linespec change mostly makes gdb accord
better with the existing documentation.  So, I did not need many changes
to the documentation.

Here is what I propose.

Tom

2011-11-14  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>

	* NEWS: Document ambiguous linespec change.

2011-11-14  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>

	* gdb.texinfo (Set Breaks): Update for new behavior.

From 7eb486556166c77a7b0dbc5741036de71cc75705 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:18:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] doc changes

---
 gdb/ChangeLog       |    4 ++++
 gdb/NEWS            |    6 ++++++
 gdb/doc/ChangeLog   |    4 ++++
 gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo |    9 ++++-----
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 1713049..f9cd558 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 
 *** Changes since GDB 7.3.1
 
+* GDB now handles ambiguous linespecs more consistently; the existing
+  FILE:LINE support has been expanded to other types of linespecs.  A
+  breakpoint will now have locations at all the matching points in all
+  inferiors, and locations will be added or subtracted according to
+  inferior changes.
+
 * GDB now allows you to skip uninteresting functions and files when
   stepping with the "skip function" and "skip file" commands.
 
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 520360f..d6fc928 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -3515,6 +3515,9 @@ in your program.  Examples of this situation are:
 
 @itemize @bullet
 @item
+Multiple functions in the program may have the same name.
+
+@item
 For a C@t{++} constructor, the @value{NGCC} compiler generates several
 instances of the function body, used in different cases.
 
@@ -3528,11 +3531,7 @@ several places where that function is inlined.
 @end itemize
 
 In all those cases, @value{GDBN} will insert a breakpoint at all
-the relevant locations@footnote{
-As of this writing, multiple-location breakpoints work only if there's
-line number information for all the locations.  This means that they
-will generally not work in system libraries, unless you have debug
-info with line numbers for them.}.
+the relevant locations.
 
 A breakpoint with multiple locations is displayed in the breakpoint
 table using several rows---one header row, followed by one row for
-- 
1.7.6.4


             reply	other threads:[~2011-11-14 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-14 21:16 Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-11-15 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-15 18:05   ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-15 18:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-15 18:24       ` Tom Tromey

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