From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8052 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2004 18:15:40 -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 8039 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2004 18:15:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coconut.kealia.com) (209.3.10.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2004 18:15:39 -0000 Received: from coconut.kealia.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by coconut.kealia.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1BIFSSH005479; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:15:28 -0800 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by coconut.kealia.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i1BIFRe6005472; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:15:27 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: coconut.kealia.com: carlton set sender to carlton@kealia.com using -f To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS From: David Carlton Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00302.txt.bz2 I'm pretty much done merging in my C++ changes (I'll post another message with more details in a sec), so it seems like it's time to mention it in NEWS. Any suggested improvements to the wording in the following patch? David Carlton carlton@kealia.com 2004-02-11 David Carlton * NEWS: Mention C++ nested types and namespaces. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.135 diff -u -p -r1.135 NEWS --- NEWS 5 Feb 2004 19:56:33 -0000 1.135 +++ NEWS 11 Feb 2004 18:10:42 -0000 @@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ GDB support for location expressions has arguments and frame bases. Older versions of GDB could crash when they encountered these. +* C++ nested types and namespaces + +GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been +improved. We recommend that you use the DWARF 2 debugging format to +get the full benefit from this; this is the default for recent +versions of GCC on most platforms. + * New native configurations NetBSD/amd64 x86_64-*-netbsd*