Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>]

> From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:29:06 -0800
> 
> > IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> > you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> > and now does.
> 
> That's a good point.  How about:
> 
>   GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
>   improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format.  (This
>   is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
>   Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
>   namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
>   "Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner".  This should greatly reduce the
>   frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols.  In
>   addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
>   a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.

This is okay with me.

> I'm still not entirely thrilled with it, especially that last
> sentence; I don't want to go into _too_ many details, but I'm not sure
> I've found the right balance.

I think your text strikes the right balance, one that is appropriate
to NEWS.