* [RFA/doco] Minor rewording regarding implicit "use/with"
@ 2008-08-13 16:17 Joel Brobecker
2008-08-13 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Joel Brobecker @ 2008-08-13 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,
One on my collegues who is one of our Ada "lawyers" suggested the
following rewording to make it more accurate.
2008-08-13 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Ada Mode Intro): Improve the documentation regarding
the direct visibility of all names in user-written packages.
OK to commit?
Thanks,
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Joel
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 5c851ee..1ef4c8a 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -11071,11 +11071,11 @@ are not particularly important to the @value{GDBN} user.
That brevity is important to the @value{GDBN} user.
@end itemize
-Thus, for brevity, the debugger acts as if there were
-implicit @code{with} and @code{use} clauses in effect for all user-written
-packages, making it unnecessary to fully qualify most names with
-their packages, regardless of context. Where this causes ambiguity,
-@value{GDBN} asks the user's intent.
+Thus, for brevity, the debugger acts as if all names declared in
+user-written packages are directly visible, even if they are not visible
+according to Ada rules, thus making it unnecessary to fully qualify most
+names with their packages, regardless of context. Where this causes
+ambiguity, @value{GDBN} asks the user's intent.
The debugger will start in Ada mode if it detects an Ada main program.
As for other languages, it will enter Ada mode when stopped in a program that
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