From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4099 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2003 19:54:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3852 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2003 19:54:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yosemite.airs.com) (209.128.65.135) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2003 19:54:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 15634 invoked by uid 10); 3 Dec 2003 19:54:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 5038 invoked by uid 500); 3 Dec 2003 19:53:58 -0000 From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Demanger in gdb's NEWS file References: <3FCE39C0.70403@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:54:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3FCE39C0.70403@gnu.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: > Suggest adding an entry to GDB's news file mentioning that there's a > new demangler - It's very news worthy and very user visible (and GDB > could easily be the first kid on the block with a new release > containing that code). OK, I checked in the appended. I can adjust if anybody likes, or feel free to adjust it yourself. (I have to admit that when I started this work I wasn't thinking of GDB at all.) Ian 2003-12-03 Ian Lance Taylor * NEWS: Mention new C++ demangler code. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.129 diff -u -r1.129 NEWS --- NEWS 1 Dec 2003 21:10:46 -0000 1.129 +++ NEWS 3 Dec 2003 19:52:33 -0000 @@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ *** Changes since GDB 6.0: +* New C++ demangler + +GDB has a new C++ demangler which does a better job on the mangled +names generated by current versions of g++. It also runs faster, so +with this and other changes gdb should now start faster on large C++ +programs. + * DWARF 2 Location Expressions GDB support for location expressions has been extended to support function