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1 1999-01-12 Jason Molenda (jsm@bugshack.cygnus.com)
2
3 * gdbint.texinfo (Formatting): Disambiguate a sentence.
4 (C Usage): Same.
5
6 Tue Jan 12 16:54:37 1999 Edith Epstein <eepstein@sophia.cygnus.com>
7
8 * gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): fixed messages about shell usage.
9 HP was insisting on C shell. Now all UNIX platforms have the
10 same message. removed @ifset HPPA and @ifclear HPPA
11
12 Wed Jan 6 11:55:34 1999 David Taylor <taylor@texas.cygnus.com>
13
14 The following changes were made by Edith Epstein
15 <eepstein@cygnus.com> as part of a project to merge in changes
16 made by HP.
17
18 * HPPA-cfg.texi: new file.
19
20 * all-cfg.texi: set HPPA for HP PA-RISC targets.
21
22 * refcard.tex: change documentation about catch.
23 removed info catch.
24
25 Mon Jan 4 18:29:18 1999 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
26
27 * gdbint.texinfo: Expand on GDB's coding standards,
28 specify the use of arg names with prototypes.
29
30 1998-12-14 J.T. Conklin <jtc@redbacknetworks.com>
31
32 * gdb.texinfo: Fix tipo.
33
34 Sun Dec 13 10:27:59 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
35
36 * gdbint.texinfo: Document TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_DEFAULT and
37 TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE_P.
38
39 Thu Dec 10 16:07:09 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
40
41 * gdbint.texinfo (FRAME_FIND_SAVED_REGS): Document.
42
43 1998-12-09 Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
44
45 * agentexpr.texi: New file.
46
47 Wed Dec 9 21:13:57 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@chook>
48
49 * gdbint.texinfo (REGISTER_NAME): Replace REGISTER_NAMES.
50
51 1998-12-03 J.T. Conklin <jtc@redbacknetworks.com>
52
53 * remote.texi: Changed wording that implied that the GDB remote
54 protocol caches register values instead of GDB itself.
55
56 Tue Dec 1 17:45:43 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
57
58 * gdbint.texinfo: Add some info about symbol readers.
59 (CHILL_PRODUCER, etc): Comment out descriptions, not useful.
60 (IN_SOLIB_CALL_TRAMPOLINE): Rename info from IN_SOLIB_TRAMPOLINE.
61 (IN_SOLIB_RETURN_TRAMPOLINE): Describe.
62 (KERNEL_DEBUGGING, MIPSEL): No info about these, remove.
63
64 Mon Nov 30 11:32:21 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@chook>
65
66 * gdbint.texinfo (FRAME_CHAIN_VALID_ALTERNATE):
67
68 Sat Nov 28 13:45:53 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
69
70 * gdbint.texinfo (INNER_THAN): Update, now takes parameters.
71
72 Fri Nov 27 12:39:45 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@chook>
73
74 * gdbint.texinfo (NO_SINGLE_STEP): Replace with
75 SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P and SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP.
76
77 Wed Oct 14 10:02:40 1998 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
78
79 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix minor typos.
80
81 Wed Sep 30 18:03:19 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
82
83 * gdbint.texinfo: Complete overhaul. Group descriptions more
84 logically, add more info on generic algorithms, remove much
85 obsolete and/or wrong material.
86
87 Fri Jul 24 17:51:38 1998 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
88
89 * stabs.texinfo (Method Type Descriptor): Expand and correct.
90
91 Mon May 4 10:37:12 1998 Brian Youmans (3diff@gnu.org)
92
93 * refcard.tex: Copyright, address updates.
94
95 Tue Apr 21 18:09:56 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
96
97 * gdb.texinfo (EDITION, DATE): Update and change to use ordinals
98 for the edition instead of confusing GDB-version-like numbers.
99
100 Mon Apr 13 14:05:00 1998 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
101
102 * gdb.texinfo (hbreak, watch): Fix typo, "date" -> "data".
103
104 Thu Apr 2 16:52:44 1998 Jason Molenda (crash@bugshack.cygnus.com)
105
106 * LRS: Reformat a bit to keep text under 80 columns.
107
108 Thu Apr 2 16:10:36 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
109
110 * gdb.texinfo: Add some credits, mention bug monitor.
111 * remote.texi: Mention mips monitor targets.
112 * gdbint.texinfo: Describe SP_REGNUM, STEP_SKIPS_DELAY.
113
114 Mon Feb 2 17:13:03 1998 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
115
116 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove obsolete mentions of pinsn.c and opcode.h
117 files, finish sorting of host vs target vs native macros, describe
118 some more of them.
119
120 Tue Jan 13 16:44:50 1998 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
121
122 * gdbint.texinfo (Host Conditionals): Document change from
123 using NO_MMALLOC to it's inverse, USE_MMALLOC.
124
125 Mon Nov 24 13:55:21 1997 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
126
127 * gdbint.texinfo (Host Conditionals): Document
128 PRINTF_HAS_LONG_DOUBLE, SCANF_HAS_LONG_DOUBLE, HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE.
129
130 Fri Jul 4 14:52:31 1997 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
131
132 * gdbint.texinfo (Host Conditionals): Add CRLF_SOURCE_LINES.
133 Document LSEEK_NOT_LINEAR.
134
135 Tue Mar 25 14:44:09 1997 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
136
137 * stabs.texinfo (Stab Section Basics): Make it clear that only
138 some versions of the GNU linker remove the leading N_UNDF symbol.
139
140 Thu Feb 27 17:45:19 1997 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
141
142 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Document type number pairs here,
143 instead of in the Sun specific section.
144 (Include Files): The GNU linker supports the N_BINCL
145 optimization. Clarify the N_BINCL value, and what it is used
146 for.
147 (Procedures): Document N_FUN with an empty string to mark the end
148 of a function.
149 (Typedefs): Mention that Sun compilers may use N_GSYM for a type.
150 (Sun Differences): Remove this node, as the information is now
151 elsewhere in the main document.
152 (Stab Section Basics): Mention that the GNU linker may optimize
153 stabs and remove the leading N_UNDF symbol.
154
155 Mon Dec 9 12:23:32 1996 Roland Pesch <roland@wrs.com>
156
157 * gdb.texinfo, refcard.tex: Restore author credit
158
159 Wed Oct 2 22:01:36 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@fishfood.ninemoons.com>
160
161 * gdbint.texinfo (SIGTRAMP_START, SIGTRAMP_END): Update
162 documentation to account for START and END macros taking
163 one arg.
164
165 Thu Aug 22 17:59:03 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
166
167 From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
168 * gdb.texinfo (Frames): Fix typo.
169
170 Tue Jul 23 10:06:20 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
171
172 * gdbint.texinfo (NO_SINGLE_STEP): Document that single_step takes
173 a target_signal as arg type, not a pid.
174
175 Fri Jul 12 11:10:05 1996 Stu Grossman (grossman@critters.cygnus.com)
176
177 * gdb.texinfo: Document `set assembly-language'.
178
179 Thu Jul 11 13:50:28 1996 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
180
181 * remote.texi: Update list of stubs in the GDB distribution.
182
183 Fri Jul 5 15:38:54 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
184
185 * gdbint.texinfo (NO_MMCHECK): Renamed from NO_MMALLOC_CHECK.
186 Also document that some systems can use mmalloc but must define
187 this if their C runtime allocates memory that is later freed.
188 (MMCHECK_FORCE): Document new macro.
189
190 Fri Jun 28 22:17:10 1996 Dawn Perchik <dawn@cygnus.com>
191
192 * remote.texi: Add documentation for target Sparclet.
193
194 Mon Jun 24 18:12:22 1996 Jason Molenda (crash@godzilla.cygnus.co.jp)
195
196 * Makefile.in (srcdir, VPATH, prefix, infodir, INSTALL,
197 INSTALL_PROGRAM, INSTALL_DATA): Use autoconf set values.
198 * configure.in: Rewritten for autoconf.
199 * configure: New.
200
201 Mon Jun 17 10:43:41 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
202
203 * Makefile.in (DVIPS): New define, set to dvips.
204 (dvi): Add stabs.dvi.
205 (ps): New target.
206 (all-doc): Depend on info, dvi, and ps targets.
207 (STAGESTUFF): Add *.ps and *.dvi files.
208 (clean-info, clean-dvi): Remove.
209 (mostlyclean): Does not depend upon clean-info or clean-dvi,
210 rules completely rewritten.
211 (maintainer-clean): Remove clean-info and clean-dvi
212 dependencies and put their actions in the rules.
213 (gdb.ps): New target
214 (gdb.dvi, gdbgui.dvi, gdbint.dvi, stabs.dvi): Remove
215 intermediate TeX files, whether they have 2 or 3 character
216 extensions.
217 (gdbint.ps): Add target and rules.
218 (gdb-internals): Delete unused target.
219 (Makefile): Depends upon config.status also.
220
221 Sat Mar 30 15:46:58 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
222
223 * gdbint.texinfo (CC_HAS_LONG_LONG): Clarify when/how this is
224 set.
225
226 Sat Mar 16 15:10:20 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
227
228 From Peter Schauer <Peter.Schauer@Regent.E-Technik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
229 * gdb.texinfo (Expressions): Fix erroneous array constant example.
230
231 Sat Mar 16 13:28:45 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
232
233 * gdb.texinfo: Add missing "@bullet" to some "@itemize" commands.
234
235 Sat Feb 10 03:28:36 1996 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
236
237 * gdb.texinfo (Print settings): Document
238 `set/show print static-members' commands.
239
240 Wed Jan 10 14:16:37 1996 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
241
242 * gdbint.texinfo (Native): Document name change, coredep.c to
243 core-aout.c.
244
245 Wed Dec 13 12:35:28 1995 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
246
247 * stabs.texinfo (Include Files): Document the values the SunOS4
248 linker creates for N_BINCL/N_EINCL/N_EXCL stabs.
249
250 Fri Dec 8 21:08:44 1995 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
251
252 * gdbint.texinfo (Releases): Change gdb.tar.Z to gdb.tar.gz.
253 Fix typo.
254
255 Fri Dec 1 11:07:50 1995 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
256
257 * gdbint.texinfo (Releases): Make "gdb.tar.gz" rather than
258 "gdb.tar.Z".
259
260 Wed Sep 20 13:14:10 1995 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
261
262 * Makefile.in (maintainer-clean): New target, synonym for
263 realclean.
264
265 Thu Aug 3 10:45:37 1995 Fred Fish <fnf@cygnus.com>
266
267 * Update all FSF addresses except those in COPYING* files.
268
269 Wed Jul 19 18:43:03 1995 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
270
271 From Richard Earnshaw (rearnsha@armltd.co.uk):
272 * gdb.texinfo (convenience variables): Document $_exitcode.
273 (quit): Document optional expression to use as exit code.
274
275 Thu Jun 22 21:27:33 1995 Victoria Mixon <victoria@cygnus.com>
276
277 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: Brought up to date with various
278 GDB changes.
279
280 Tue Jun 20 14:35:38 1995 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
281
282 * gdb.texinfo: Update dates and versions, fix comments about
283 hardware watchpoints in future releases and about the
284 sharedlibrary command.
285
286 Mon May 8 09:30:36 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
287
288 * stabs.texinfo: Remove node `XCOFF differences'. Describe value of
289 C_FUN stab. Other cleanups.
290
291 Wed Apr 19 07:02:19 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
292
293 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Clarify that flush_i_cache is only
294 for the sparc stub.
295
296 Tue Apr 11 11:41:49 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
297
298 * annotate.texi: Clarify which addresses have differing formats
299 depending on the language and which do not.
300
301 Tue Mar 28 16:56:22 1995 J.T. Conklin <jtc@rtl.cygnus.com>
302
303 * remote.texi (NetWare): Changed example to use BOARD= instead of
304 NODE= argument to reflect correspoding change to gdbserve.nlm.
305
306 Fri Mar 17 06:47:02 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
307
308 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Mention the fact that
309 GDB, as well as AIX dbx, supports the size type attribute.
310
311 Thu Mar 16 12:11:32 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
312
313 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Document types -31 to -34.
314
315 Mon Mar 13 16:49:13 1995 Per Bothner <bothner@kalessin.cygnus.com>
316
317 * gdb.texinfo (Define): Document $arg0... arguments to commands,
318 and new 'if' and 'while' commands.
319
320 Fri Feb 17 15:24:35 1995 Per Bothner <bothner@kalessin.cygnus.com>
321
322 * gdb.texinfo (Artificial arrays): Note use of coerce-to-array-type.
323
324 Wed Feb 15 11:59:18 1995 J.T. Conklin <jtc@rtl.cygnus.com>
325
326 * all-cfg.texi: New flag, GDBSERVE, for NetWare's gdbserve.nlm.
327 * remote.texi (NetWare): New node, how to use gdbserve.nlm on
328 NetWare targets. Mostly stolen from the Server node.
329
330 Fri Feb 10 20:20:08 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
331
332 * gdb.texinfo (Setting): Talk about the language of a source file
333 versus the working language. The old documentation did not match
334 what GDB did.
335
336 Wed Feb 1 20:26:36 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
337
338 * stabs.texinfo (Source Files): Document N_SO used to mark the end
339 of a source file.
340
341 Mon Jan 23 14:23:37 1995 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
342
343 * gdb.texinfo (Processes): New node.
344
345 Tue Jan 17 14:09:03 1995 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@sanguine.cygnus.com>
346
347 * remote.texi: Update documentation of set/show mipsfpu.
348
349 start-sanitize-gdbtk
350 Fri Jan 6 17:17:28 1995 Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
351
352 * gdbgui.texinfo: New file, manual for GUI (gdbtk) users.
353 * Makefile.in (gdbgui.dvi, gdbgui.info): New actions.
354 end-sanitize-gdbtk
355
356 Sun Sep 4 16:47:21 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
357
358 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed mentions of some incorrectly placed and
359 obsolete conditionals, described some others.
360
361 Mon Aug 1 15:42:39 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
362
363 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove references to BROKEN_LARGE_ALLOCA and
364 SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE; they were removed from GDB 14 May 1994.
365
366 Mon Aug 1 15:12:02 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
367
368 * gdbint.texinfo: Put regex conditionals in their own table.
369
370 Tue Jul 26 18:32:52 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
371
372 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed mentions of many obsolete conditionals,
373 described or fixed the descriptions of many others.
374
375 Sun Jul 17 14:14:03 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
376
377 * gdb.texinfo: Add some more credits.
378 * gdbint.texinfo: Capitalize GDB consistently, describe some
379 macros and remove some.
380
381 Thu Jul 14 18:43:17 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
382
383 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed mentions of many incorrectly placed and
384 obsolete conditionals, described some others.
385
386 Tue Jul 12 12:23:15 1994 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
387
388 * gdb.texinfo (help targets): Changed to `help target', which
389 is the correct gdb command.
390
391 Wed Jun 22 18:00:51 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
392
393 * annotate.texi (TODO): New node, for keeping track of annotations
394 suggested but not yet implemented.
395
396 Wed Jun 1 16:10:45 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
397
398 * stabs.texinfo (Statics): Value of xcoff C_BSTAT points to
399 another symbol, it is not the address itself.
400
401 Thu May 5 20:23:36 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com)
402
403 * stabs.texinfo (Stab Section Basics): Add comment about alignment
404 of stabs-in-coff sections.
405
406 Wed May 4 06:26:11 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
407
408 * annotate.texi: Change edition to 0.5 and date to May 1994.
409 Add index.
410 (Frames): New node, for frame annotation.
411 (Displays): New node, for display annotation.
412
413 * remote.texi (MIPS Remote): Say that set timeout doesn't apply
414 when waiting for your program to stop.
415
416 Fri Apr 29 18:24:46 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
417
418 * annotate.texi (Breakpoint Info): Document annotation of header
419 fields and record annotation.
420
421 Thu Apr 28 07:44:28 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
422
423 * annotate.texi: New file, to document annotations.
424
425 Thu Apr 21 14:20:51 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
426
427 * Makefile.in (clean): Don't remove GDBvn.texi (apparently on Jan
428 16 I meant to make this change but did not). Do remove gdb-cfg.texi.
429
430 Wed Apr 20 11:22:48 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
431
432 * stabs.texinfo (Stab Section Basics): Say what is in .stab
433 section, and say n_strx field is compilation unit relative.
434 * stabs.texinfo: Don't use @code for a.out when it is the name of
435 an object file format.
436
437 Wed Apr 13 20:29:54 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@deneb.cygnus.com)
438
439 * gdb.texinfo: Refer to file names, not path names, per rms
440 convention.
441 (Arguments): Fix typo.
442
443 Thu Mar 24 08:09:12 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
444
445 * stabs.texinfo (Global Variables): Talk about stabs in files
446 where variables are referenced, but not defined.
447
448 Wed Mar 23 07:16:36 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
449
450 * stabs.texinfo: Move stuff on @ and # type descriptors from node
451 Cplusplus to new nodes Member Type Descriptor and Method Type
452 Descriptor. Re-write stuff for #.
453
454 Wed Mar 16 08:20:19 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
455
456 * gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Don't document "set print
457 fast-symbolic-addr off". The bug which it worked around was fixed
458 on 25 Feb 94 in coffread.c, so I'm nuking the command.
459
460 * stabs.texinfo (Alternate Entry Points): New node, rewritten from
461 N_ENTRY node.
462
463 * stabs.texinfo (Type Descriptors): Add 'Y' type descriptor.
464
465 Tue Mar 15 08:43:02 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
466
467 * gdbint.texinfo (Host Conditionals, Target Conditionals): Remove
468 references to ieee-float.c.
469
470 Fri Mar 11 08:09:40 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
471
472 * gdb.texinfo (Set Breaks): Update documentation for tbreak to
473 match what the code actually does.
474
475 Wed Mar 9 19:43:05 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
476
477 * stabs.texinfo (Symbol Descriptors): Add OS9000 symbol descriptor s.
478
479 Tue Mar 1 17:04:43 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@deneb.cygnus.com)
480
481 * stabs.texinfo (Type Descriptors): Add OS9000 type descriptors c,
482 i, and b.
483
484 Wed Feb 23 10:44:18 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@rtl.cygnus.com)
485
486 * stabs.texinfo: Document N_RBRAC as function relative for COFF as
487 well as for ELF and SOM. Unify the descriptions of ELF and SOM
488 as "stabs in sections" rather than just saying "ELF and SOM".
489 Also make that stuff apply to COFF.
490
491 Fri Feb 18 08:25:58 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
492
493 * gdb.texinfo (Formatting Documentation): Change GhostScript to
494 Ghostscript.
495
496 Fri Feb 4 06:31:31 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
497
498 * gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): When talking about "step"
499 versus functions without line numbers, also mention stepping into
500 them as well as "step" when you are in them. Tell the user how to
501 deal with the situation. Add comment about "debugging information".
502
503 Thu Feb 3 11:39:59 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
504
505 * stabs.texinfo (Enumerations): Document restriction on where
506 enumeration types can appear and still win with GDB.
507
508 Wed Feb 2 11:29:17 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
509
510 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Document format for type
511 -16.
512
513 Thu Jan 27 16:53:56 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
514
515 * gdb.texinfo (Selection, Frame Info): Update information about
516 arbitrary frame specficiations.
517
518 Wed Jan 26 15:31:57 1994 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
519
520 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: general editing pass prior to Net release
521
522 Tue Jan 25 12:12:04 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
523
524 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Discuss continuing stabs with ?.
525
526 Wed Jan 19 06:39:24 1994 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
527
528 * stabs.texinfo (Non-Stab Symbol Types): Mention N_SET* | N_EXT.
529
530 Sun Jan 16 12:43:32 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
531
532 * stabs.texinfo: Re-do stuff about C_BSTAT and move from XCOFF
533 Differences node to Statics node.
534 (Statics): Discuss XCOFF use of V symbol descriptor.
535
536 * Makefile.in: Remove refcard.dvi and GDBvn.texi in realclean,
537 not clean.
538
539 Wed Jan 12 21:29:54 1994 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
540
541 * gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Document `set print
542 fast-symbolic-addr' and improve the doc for some other
543 `set print's.
544
545 Mon Jan 3 17:23:07 1994 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
546
547 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Talk about defining several type
548 numbers at once.
549 Fix lint regarding changing node ELF Transformations to
550 ELF and SOM Transformations.
551
552 Fri Dec 31 00:42:43 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
553
554 * stabs.texinfo: Insert Peter Kessler's name as inventor (I think).
555
556 Tue Dec 28 09:30:40 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
557
558 * stabs.texinfo (Cross-References): `::' is for nested types only
559 within <>.
560 (Structures): Document static members.
561
562 Mon Dec 27 13:55:04 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
563
564 * stabs.texinfo: Document S type attribute.
565
566 Sun Dec 26 20:46:36 1993 Jeffrey A. Law (law@snake.cs.utah.edu)
567
568 * stabs.texinfo: Add notes about stabs-in-som where appropriate.
569
570 Fri Dec 3 19:13:19 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
571
572 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix a few typos.
573
574 Sun Nov 28 18:06:25 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
575
576 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: formatting improvements
577
578 * gdb.texinfo (New Features): mention threads.
579 (Summary, C): fix xrefs in newly contributed text.
580 (Threads): index entries, clarifications, example
581 (passim): minor typos fixed, phrasing improvements
582
583 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): rephrase text on ^C and add index
584 entries; (Server): explain use of gdbserver w/real-time systems,
585 add example of conflicting TCP port; (MIPS Remote) break up
586 running text into table, highlighting commands, and add example.
587
588 Wed Nov 24 14:15:56 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
589
590 * refcard.tex: avoid bad linebreaks even when REFEDITS=psrc.sed
591
592 Fri Nov 12 16:10:58 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
593
594 * stabs.texinfo (Nested Symbols): New node.
595 (String Field, Symbol Descriptors, Cross-References): Refer to it.
596
597 Thu Nov 11 13:26:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
598
599 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs in ELF): Clarify how Bbss.bss work with respect
600 to picking which Bbss.bss symbol to use, and (because there seems to
601 be no good way of doing it) re-write some of the text to make it
602 sound like Bbss.bss isn't such a great idea after all (as currently
603 designed).
604
605 * gdb.texinfo (C): In addition to saying people have to use g++ for
606 good results, say they have to use stabs. Specifically say cfront
607 doesn't work well.
608 (Summary): Merge in information on Modula-2, Pascal, and Chill from
609 the gdb README. Add xrefs to places where the support for the various
610 languages is described in detail.
611
612 Mon Nov 8 11:47:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
613
614 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up stuff about visibility and virtual
615 characters.
616
617 * stabs.texinfo (N_M2C): Cite Sun doc.
618
619 Fri Nov 5 16:27:27 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
620
621 * gdb.texinfo: updates re threads.
622 * remote.texinfo: avoid index entries starting with digits.
623
624 Tue Nov 2 09:08:37 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
625
626 * stabs.texinfo (Enumerations): Talk about large, negative and
627 octal values. Clean up cross reference to type attributes.
628 (String Field): Say that GDB 4.11 supports size attribute.
629
630 Sun Oct 31 13:31:10 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
631
632 * remote.texi (VxWorks Remote): Clarify that rebuilding VxWorks kernel
633 is a mandatory step. Make the stuff about that more concise.
634
635 Wed Oct 27 00:25:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
636
637 * stabs.texinfo (Class Names): New node.
638
639 * gdb.texinfo (Command Files): Explain order of init file reading.
640
641 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Talk about getting the serial driver
642 to deal with ^C sent by gdb to stop the remote system.
643
644 Mon Oct 25 03:25:41 1993 Tom Lord (lord@cygnus.com)
645
646 * libgdb.texinfo (I/O): incorporated better phrasing from rich.
647
648 * libgdb.texinfo (Defining Commands): made the DOC arg
649 to gdb_define_app_command a char * instead of char **
650 per a suggestion from kingdon.
651
652 * libgdb.texinfo: total rewrite from a different starting
653 premise.
654
655 Wed Oct 20 18:07:44 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
656
657 * stabs.texinfo (Local Variable Parameters): Re-write paragraph on
658 floats passed as doubles (to improve clarity).
659
660 Tue Oct 19 14:21:18 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
661
662 * gdb.texinfo (Source Path): index entries for $cwd, $pdir
663
664 * a4rc.sed: update to work with Andreas Vogel papersize params
665
666 * refcard.tex: use Andreas Vogel simplifications of papersize
667 params; remove useless version info; update copyright date.
668
669 Tue Oct 19 10:46:22 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
670
671 * gdb.texinfo (Symbols): Add class NAME to doc for ptype.
672
673 Tue Oct 12 09:11:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
674
675 * gdb.texinfo (Files): Say what address the load command loads it at.
676
677 * stabs.texinfo (Common Blocks): Minor cleanups.
678
679 * stabs.texinfo: Update ld stabs in elf relocation to reflect the fact
680 that Sun has backed away from the linker kludge and thus the relevant
681 issue is changes to the SunPRO tools, not the Solaris linker.
682
683 * stabs.texinfo (Traditional Integer Types): Clean up description
684 of octal bounds a little bit. Document extra leading zeroes.
685
686 Thu Oct 7 16:15:37 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
687
688 * gdb.texinfo (Signaling): Update for symbolic symbol names
689 and add a section explaining the difference between the GDB
690 signal command and the shell kill utility.
691
692 Wed Oct 6 13:23:01 1993 Tom Lord (lord@rtl.cygnus.com)
693
694 * libgdb.texinfo: added `@' to braces that were unescaped.
695
696 Mon Oct 4 10:42:18 1993 Tom Lord (lord@rtl.cygnus.com)
697
698 * libgdb.texinfo: new file. Spec for the gdb library.
699
700 Sun Oct 3 15:26:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
701
702 * stabs.texinfo (Include Files): Fix typo (start -> end).
703
704 Thu Sep 30 18:24:56 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
705
706 * gdb.texinfo, remote.texi: assorted small improvements, mostly
707 from Melissa at FSF's editing pass.
708
709 Thu Sep 30 11:54:38 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
710
711 * gdb.texinfo: Remove stuff about ar and 14 character filenames.
712 I believe this was fixed by the 13 Sep 89 change to print_frame_info.
713 Also, modern versions of ar like BSD 4.4 or SVR4 don't have this bug.
714
715 Wed Sep 22 21:22:11 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
716
717 * remote.texi (Bootstrapping): Discuss 386 call gates.
718
719 Sat Sep 18 17:10:44 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@poseidon.cygnus.com)
720
721 * stabs.texinfo (Based Variables): New node.
722
723 Thu Sep 16 17:48:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cirdan.cygnus.com)
724
725 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Re-write discussions of
726 names, sizes, and formats to suggest how not to lose.
727
728 Sat Sep 11 09:35:11 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@poseidon.cygnus.com)
729
730 * stabs.texinfo (Methods): Fix typo.
731
732 Fri Sep 10 06:34:20 1993 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
733
734 * gdb.texinfo: Fix a few typos.
735
736 Wed Sep 8 09:11:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
737
738 * gdb.texinfo: Clarify how well it works with Fortran.
739
740 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF, Statics, ELF Transformations):
741 More on relocating stabs in ELF files.
742
743 Tue Sep 7 13:45:02 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
744
745 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF): Talk about N_FUN value.
746
747 Mon Sep 6 19:23:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
748
749 * stabs.texinfo (Local Variable Parameters): Talk about nameless
750 parameters on VAX.
751
752 Fri Sep 3 17:06:08 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
753
754 * gdb.texinfo: @up/@down -> @raisesections/@lowersections
755
756 Fri Sep 3 12:04:15 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
757
758 * stabs.texinfo: Make info author notice match the TeX author notice.
759
760 Tue Aug 31 13:21:06 1993 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com)
761
762 * stabs.texinfo: Initial-caps all words in node names and
763 non-trivial words in section names.
764
765 Mon Aug 30 11:13:16 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
766
767 * stabs.texinfo: Many minor cleanups.
768
769 * stabs.texinfo: Remove @deffn except from Expanded Reference node.
770
771 Sat Aug 28 12:08:09 1993 David J. MacKenzie (djm@edison.eng.umd.edu)
772
773 * stabs.texinfo: Remove full description of big example.
774 It's not really helpful; just use pieces of it where appropriate.
775 Add more Texinfo formatting directives (@samp, etc.).
776 Use @deffn to define stab types.
777 Eliminate some wordiness. Break up some nodes.
778 Add an (alphabetized) index of symbol types.
779 Use consistent capitalization style in node and section names.
780
781 Thu Aug 26 06:36:31 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@deneb.cygnus.com)
782
783 * gdb.texinfo: Change typo "Two two" to "The two".
784
785 Sun Aug 22 12:15:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
786
787 * stabs.texinfo (XCOFF-differences): Remove references to
788 non-existent types N_DECL and N_RPSYM.
789
790 * stabs.texinfo (String Field): Say that type attributes bug is
791 fixed in GDB 4.10, since it is.
792
793 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up djm cleanups, and more cleanups of my own.
794
795 Sat Aug 21 04:32:28 1993 David MacKenzie (djm@cygnus.com)
796
797 * stabs.texinfo: Formatting cleanups.
798
799 Fri Aug 20 20:49:53 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
800
801 * stabs.texinfo: When explaining the n_type of a stab, standardize
802 how we do it ('#' as a comment indicator, "36 is N_FUN" as text,
803 no tabs, use @r).
804 (Global Variables): Clean up.
805
806 Tue Aug 17 15:57:27 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
807
808 * stabs.texinfo (Stack Variables): Re-write.
809
810 Mon Aug 16 21:20:08 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
811
812 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs-in-elf): Talk about getting the start
813 addresses of a source file. Also revise formatting.
814 Change "object module" or "object file" to "source file".
815 Various: Miscellaneous cleanups.
816
817 Thu Aug 12 15:11:51 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
818
819 * stabs.texinfo: Point to mangling info in gcc's gpcompare.texi.
820
821 Tue Aug 10 16:57:49 1993 Stan Shebs (shebs@rtl.cygnus.com)
822
823 * gdbint.texinfo: Removed many nonsensical machine-collected
824 host and target conditionals, described some of the remainder.
825
826 Tue Aug 10 13:28:30 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
827
828 * gdbint.texinfo (Getting Started): Use @itemize, not @table.
829
830 * gdbint.texinfo (Top): Add name to @top line, and re-write the
831 paragraph which follows.
832
833 * gdbint.texinfo (Host): Use @code not @samp for Makefile
834 variables. Looks better and avoids overful hbox.
835
836 Fri Jul 30 18:26:21 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
837
838 * stabs.texinfo (Procedures): Improve stuff on nested functions.
839
840 Thu Jul 29 15:10:58 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
841
842 * remote.texi: (MIPS Remote) clearer doc for set/show timeout,
843 retransmit-timeout
844
845 Thu Jul 29 13:16:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
846
847 * gdbint.texinfo: Update statement about `some ancient Unix
848 systems, like Ultrix 4.0' to Ultrix 4.2.
849
850 Wed Jul 28 15:26:53 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@el_bosque.cygnus.com)
851
852 * h8-cfg.texi, all-cfg.texi: new flag GDBSERVER
853
854 * Makefile.in: depend on remote.texi rather than gdbinv-s.texi
855
856 * remote.texi: (Server) New node on gdbserver. (Remote Serial,
857 ST2000 Remote, MIPS Remote): mention `host:port' syntax for TCP.
858
859 * remote.texi: new name for former gdbinv-s.texi
860
861 * gdb.texinfo: use remote.texi rather than gdbinv-s.texi
862
863 Wed Jul 28 08:26:24 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
864
865 * gdbinv-s.texi: Documented timeout and retransmit-timeout
866 variables for MIPS remote debugging protocol.
867
868 Mon Jul 26 13:00:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
869
870 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): FORTRAN LOGICAL fix.
871
872 Tue Jul 20 16:30:41 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@deneb.cygnus.com)
873
874 * Makefile.in (refcard.dvi): Use srcdir where necessary.
875
876 Mon Jul 19 12:02:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@cygnus.com)
877
878 * gdb.texinfo: repair conditional bugs in text markup
879
880 Fri Jul 16 18:57:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
881
882 * gdb.texinfo, all-cfg.texi, h8-cfg.texi: introduce MOD2 switch
883 to select Modula-2 material.
884
885 Thu Jul 15 13:15:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
886
887 * stabs.texinfo: Cleanups regarding statics.
888
889 * gdbinv-s.texi (Bootstrapping): Document exceptionHandler.
890 (Debug Session): Mention exceptionHandler. Add xref to Bootstrapping.
891
892 Mon Jul 12 13:37:02 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
893
894 * stabs.texinfo: N_MAIN is sometimes used for C.
895
896 Fri Jul 9 09:47:02 1993 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
897
898 * gdbint.texinfo (Host, Target Conditionals): Remove TM_FILE_OVERRIDE.
899
900 Tue Jul 6 12:41:28 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
901
902 * gdbint.texinfo (Target Conditionals): Remove NO_TYPEDEFS,
903 removed from the code by Kingdon.
904
905 Tue Jul 6 12:24:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
906
907 * gdb.texinfo (Break Commands): Remove stuff about flushing terminal
908 input when evaluating breakpoint conditions; the bug has been fixed.
909
910 * gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): Argument to "continue"
911 sets the ignore count to N-1, not to N.
912
913 Thu Jul 1 14:57:42 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
914
915 * refcard.tex (\hoffset): correct longstanding error to match
916 intended offset; avoids cutting off edge on some printers
917
918 Wed Jun 30 18:23:06 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
919
920 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Say that order of stabs is significant.
921
922 Fri Jun 25 21:34:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
923
924 * stabs.texinfo (Common Blocks): Say what Sun FORTRAN does.
925
926 Fri Jun 25 16:15:10 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
927
928 * Makefile.in: (REFEDITS) new var to control whether PS or CM
929 fonts and whether US or A4 paper for GDB refcard; (refcard.dvi)
930 collect sed edits if any, apply to refcard before formatting;
931 (refcard.ps) stop implying PS fonts if PS output requested;
932 (lrefcard.ps) delete extra target for variant PS fonts
933
934 * refcard.tex: parametrize papersize dependent info, collect
935 in easily replaced spot
936
937 * a4rc.sed: new file, edits to refcard for A4 paper
938
939 Fri Jun 25 14:21:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
940
941 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Type -16 is 4 bytes.
942
943 Wed Jun 23 15:02:50 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
944
945 * stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Minor character cleanups.
946
947 Tue Jun 22 16:31:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
948
949 * stabs.texinfo: Express disapproval of 'D' symbol descriptor
950 politely rather than rudely.
951
952 Fri Jun 18 19:42:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
953
954 * stabs.texinfo: Document common blocks.
955
956 Fri Jun 18 12:12:57 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
957
958 * stabs.texinfo: Add some basic info about stabs-in-elf.
959
960 Fri Jun 18 13:57:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
961
962 * stabs.texinfo (Top): Minor cleanup.
963
964 Mon Jun 14 16:16:51 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at rtl.cygnus.com)
965
966 * Makefile.in (install-info): remove parentdir support
967
968 Tue Jun 15 18:11:39 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
969
970 * gdb.texinfo (Copying): delete this node and references to it;
971 RMS says this manual need not carry GPL. (passim): Improvements
972 from last round at FSF, largely due to Ian Taylor review, and
973 minor formatting improvements.
974
975 * gdbinv-s.texi (passim): Improvements from last round at FSF,
976 largely due to Ian Taylor review. (Debug Session): minor edits to
977 new text.
978
979 Sun Jun 13 12:52:39 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
980
981 * Makefile.in (realclean): Remove info and dvi files too.
982
983 Sat Jun 12 16:09:22 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
984
985 * {all,h8}-config.texi: Rename to *-cfg.texi for 14 char filenames.
986 * Makefile.in: Change accordingly. gdb-config.texi -> gdb-cfg.texi.
987 * gdb.texinfo: Change accordingly.
988
989 * stabs.texinfo: Clean up N_{L,R}BRAC. Discuss what addresses of
990 N_{L,R}BRAC,N_SLINE are relative to.
991
992 Fri Jun 11 15:15:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
993
994 * Makefile.in (GDBvn.texi): Update atomically.
995
996 Wed Jun 9 10:58:16 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
997
998 * gdbinv-s.texi (Debug Session): Document exceptionHook.
999
1000 Tue Jun 8 13:42:04 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1001
1002 * gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Move all stuff relating to symbolic
1003 addresses together. Also motivate the set print symbol-filename
1004 command and suggest other solutions.
1005
1006 Tue Jun 1 22:46:43 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
1007
1008 * gdb.texinfo (set print elements): Note that the number of
1009 elements is set to unlimited by "set print elements 0".
1010
1011 Mon May 31 08:06:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1012
1013 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Try to clarify what
1014 NF_LDOUBLE means.
1015 (Stab Types): Include Solaris stab types.
1016 (Procedures): Document Solaris extensions.
1017
1018 Thu May 27 06:20:42 1993 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
1019
1020 * gdb.texinfo: Add `set print symbol-filename' doc.
1021
1022 Wed May 26 00:26:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1023
1024 * stabs.texinfo (Arrays): Talk about type definition vs. type
1025 information.
1026
1027 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting
1028 the trailing semicolon.
1029
1030 Tue May 25 14:49:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1031
1032 * stabs.texinfo (Line Numbers, Source Files): Re-write these two nodes
1033 and merge in other parts of the document addressing these subjects.
1034 gdbint.texinfo (XCOFF): Remove info which is now in stabs.texinfo.
1035
1036 * stabs.texinfo (Subranges, Arrays): Try to explain about the semicolon
1037 at the end of a range type.
1038
1039 * stabs.texinfo (Subranges): "A offset" and "T offset" are not
1040 AIX extensions.
1041
1042 Mon May 24 09:00:33 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1043
1044 * stabs.texinfo (Stabs Format): Misc fixes.
1045
1046 Sat May 22 10:40:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1047
1048 * stabs.texinfo (Constants): Allow an `e' constant to be non-enum.
1049 (Traditional builtin types): Document convex convention for long long.
1050 (Negative builtin types): Discuss type names, and misc fixes.
1051
1052 Fri May 21 11:20:31 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1053
1054 * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Document the floating
1055 point types used with @samp{R} type descriptor.
1056 (Symbol Descriptors): Describe how to handle conflict between
1057 different meanings of @samp{P} symbol descriptor.
1058
1059 Thu May 20 13:35:10 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1060
1061 * stabs.texinfo: Remove node Quick Reference and put its children
1062 directly under the main menu.
1063
1064 * stabs.texinfo: Many more changes to bring it into line with
1065 AIX documentation and reality. I think it now has all the
1066 information from the AIX documentation, except that I burned
1067 out when I got to variant records (Pascal and Modula-2) and
1068 all the COBOL types. Oh well, we can add them later when we're
1069 worrying more about those languages.
1070
1071 * stabs.texinfo (Automatic variables): Talk about what it means
1072 to omit the symbol descriptor.
1073
1074 Tue May 18 17:59:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
1075
1076 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Add "(sometimes)" when describing
1077 gcc2 behavior with promoted args.
1078
1079 Fri May 14 21:35:29 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1080
1081 * gdb.texinfo: include readline appendices in info version of manual
1082
1083 Fri May 7 11:56:18 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1084
1085 * gdbinv-s.texi (Remote Serial): describe new ^C behavior in
1086 target remote.
1087
1088 * gdb.texinfo (Machine Code): more index entries for disassemble
1089
1090 Fri May 7 10:12:30 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
1091
1092 * Clarify the intended use of the gdb-testers and gdb-patches
1093 mailing lists, and shrink gzip comment.
1094
1095 Thu May 6 16:39:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1096
1097 * gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): do not mention SHELL env var in
1098 DOSHOST configuration of manual.
1099
1100 * gdb.texinfo (MIPS Stack): new node.
1101
1102 * all-config.texi (MIPS) new switch.
1103
1104 * gdbinv-s.texi (Nindy Options) Remove two instances of future
1105 tense; (MIPS Remote) new node.
1106
1107 * gdb.texinfo (passim) rephrases to work around makeinfo @value
1108 bug; (Environment) less passive, other small cleanups in text about
1109 .cshrc/.bashrc; (Invoking GDB) new MIPS Remote menu entry;
1110 (Remote) new MIPS Remote menu entry.
1111
1112 Thu Apr 29 09:36:25 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1113
1114 * stabs.texinfo: Many changes to include information from the
1115 AIX documentation.
1116
1117 * gdb.texinfo (Environment): Mention pitfall with .cshrc.
1118
1119 Tue Apr 27 14:02:57 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1120
1121 * gdbint.texinfo (new node Debugging GDB, elsewhere):
1122 Move a bunch of information from ../README.
1123 (Getting Started): New node.
1124
1125 Fri Apr 23 17:21:13 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1126
1127 * gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo: include Hitachi SH target
1128
1129 * gdb.texinfo: advance manual revision dates to present
1130
1131 * gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo, all-config.texi, h8-config.texi:
1132 stop using silly Roman numerals in @set variable names
1133
1134 Fri Apr 23 07:30:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1135
1136 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Keep trying to get this right.
1137
1138 Wed Apr 21 15:18:47 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1139
1140 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): More on "local parameters".
1141
1142 Mon Apr 19 08:00:51 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1143
1144 * stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Re-do "local parameters" section.
1145
1146 Sun Apr 18 09:47:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1147
1148 * stabs.texinfo (Symbol descriptors): Re-do using @table and @xref.
1149 (Parameters): Rewrite.
1150 (xcoff-differences, Sun-differences): Minor changes.
1151
1152 Thu Apr 15 02:35:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cacophony.cygnus.com)
1153
1154 * stabs.texinfo: Minor cleanup.
1155
1156 Wed Apr 14 17:31:00 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1157
1158 * gdbint.texinfo: Minor xcoff stuff.
1159
1160 Wed Apr 7 14:11:07 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
1161
1162 * gdbint.texinfo: Update for new config directory structure.
1163 Add info about internal type data structures.
1164
1165 Mon Apr 5 09:06:30 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
1166
1167 * Makefile.in (SFILES_INCLUDED): gdb-config.texi is no longer in
1168 $(srcdir).
1169 (gdb-config.texi): Depend on file in $(srcdir).
1170
1171 Fri Apr 2 16:55:13 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1172
1173 * stabs.texinfo: Fixes about N_SO.
1174
1175 Fri Mar 26 18:00:35 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1176
1177 * gdb.texinfo: include list of nonstandard init file names
1178
1179 * *-config.texi: new switch GENERIC for text that applies *only*
1180 to (usual) multiple-target version of manual
1181
1182 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: Update conditional markup to correct
1183 h8 config
1184
1185 * gdb.texinfo: depend on latest fixed makeinfo, use conditionals
1186 in menus (rather than conditionally selected multiple alternative
1187 menus).
1188
1189 * Makefile.in: define and use DOC_CONFIG var to select
1190 configuration for GDB user manual.
1191
1192 * gdb-config.texi: delete from repository, generate from Makefile.
1193
1194 * all-config.texi: normal `generic' configuration file, formerly
1195 stored as gdb-config.texi
1196
1197 Wed Mar 24 14:03:19 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at poseidon.cygnus.com)
1198
1199 * Makefile.in: add dvi target to build all .dvi files
1200
1201 Tue Mar 23 16:03:24 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1202
1203 * gdb.texinfo, gdvinv-s.texinfo: formatting improvements.
1204
1205 Fri Mar 19 21:46:50 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1206
1207 * gdbint.texinfo: Doc NO_MMALLOC and NO_MMALLOC_CHECK as
1208 host conditionals.
1209 * stabs.texinfo: More array fixes inspired by Jim's.
1210
1211 Fri Mar 19 10:23:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1212
1213 * stabs.texinfo: Fixes re arrays and continuations.
1214
1215 * gdbint.texinfo: Add XCOFF node.
1216
1217 Mon Mar 8 15:52:18 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1218
1219 * gdb.texinfo: Add `set print max-symbolic-offset' doc.
1220
1221 Sun Feb 21 17:09:38 1993 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
1222
1223 * stabs.texinfo: Fix for array types to mention lower bounds.
1224
1225 Thu Feb 18 01:19:49 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1226
1227 * gdbint.texinfo: Update PTRACE_ARG3_TYPE doc, pull PT_*.
1228
1229 Wed Feb 17 08:15:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1230
1231 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE from target defines.
1232
1233 Thu Feb 11 10:38:40 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1234
1235 * gdbint.texinfo: Fix thinko (NM_FILE => NAT_FILE). Found
1236 by Michael Ben-Gershon <mybg@CS.HUJI.AC.IL>.
1237
1238 Wed Feb 10 23:59:19 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1239
1240 * gdbint.texinfo: Eliminate IBM6000_HOST, document IBM6000_TARGET.
1241
1242 Tue Feb 9 18:26:21 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1243
1244 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: misc updates
1245
1246 Sat Feb 6 10:25:47 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1247
1248 * gdbint.texinfo: Brief documentation for longjmp support,
1249 from an email msg by Stu.
1250
1251 Fri Feb 5 14:10:15 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1252
1253 * stabs.texinfo: Fix description of floating point "range"
1254 types (which really define basic types). Reported by Jim Meehan,
1255 <meehan@src.dec.com>.
1256
1257 * gdbint.texinfo: Remove COFF_NO_LONG_FILE_NAMES define, now gone.
1258
1259 Thu Feb 4 13:56:46 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
1260
1261 * gdbint.texinfo: Slightly expand section on supporting a new
1262 object file format.
1263
1264 Thu Feb 4 01:49:04 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1265
1266 * Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Remove psref.tex
1267 intermediate file.
1268
1269 Tue Feb 2 12:18:06 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1270
1271 * gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: miscellaneous stylistic cleanups
1272
1273 Mon Feb 1 15:35:47 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1274
1275 * gdbinv-s.texi: z8000 simulator target name is just "sim"
1276
1277 * gdbinv-s.texi: Mention that Z8000 simulator can simulate Z8001
1278 as well as Z8002.
1279
1280 Sat Nov 28 06:51:35 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1281
1282 * gdbint.texinfo: Add sections on clean design and on how to send
1283 in changes.
1284
1285 Mon Nov 9 23:57:02 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1286
1287 * gdbint.texinfo: Add how to declare the result of make_cleanup.
1288
1289 Mon Oct 26 11:09:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1290
1291 * gdb.texinfo: Fix typo, reported by Karl Berry.
1292
1293 Fri Oct 23 00:41:21 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1294
1295 * gdb.texinfo: Add opcodes dir to GDB distribution description.
1296
1297 Sat Oct 10 18:04:58 1992 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at cirdan.cygnus.com)
1298
1299 * gdbint.texinfo: fixed a stray email address (needs @@),
1300 added @table @code to node "Native Conditionals"
1301
1302 Tue Sep 22 00:34:15 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1303
1304 * gdbint.texinfo: Describe coding style of GDB.
1305
1306 Mon Sep 21 19:32:16 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1307
1308 * stabs.texinfo: Minor wording changes.
1309
1310 Tue Sep 15 02:57:09 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1311
1312 * gdbint.texinfo: Improve release doc slightly.
1313
1314 Fri Sep 11 01:34:25 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@sphagnum.cygnus.com)
1315
1316 * gdbint.texinfo: Improve doc of GDB config macros.
1317
1318 Wed Sep 9 16:52:06 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1319
1320 * stabs.texinfo: Remove Bothner's changes for C++ nested types.
1321 These will be reinserted when examined.
1322
1323 Mon Aug 24 01:17:55 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1324
1325 * gdbint.texinfo: Make a start at documenting all the #if macros
1326 in GDB. At least list them all, and start separating them into
1327 host-specific and target-specific.
1328
1329 Tue Aug 18 15:59:13 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1330
1331 * gdbinv-s.m4.in: refrain from using @cartouche for just a few
1332 examples (not consistent w others).
1333 gdb.texinfo: issue disclaimer paragraph on cmdline options only
1334 for generic vn of doc
1335
1336 Tue Aug 18 14:53:27 1992 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
1337
1338 * Makefile.in: always create installation directories.
1339
1340 Tue Aug 18 14:11:50 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1341
1342 * gdb.texinfo: in h8 config, do not describe searching commands.
1343
1344 Mon Aug 17 18:07:59 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1345
1346 * gdb.texinfo, none.m4, h8.m4, gdbinv-s.m4.in: improve H8/300
1347 conditionals; introduce a few generic switches that may be
1348 useful for other cross-dev or dos-hosted configs.
1349
1350 * gdb.texinfo: fix typo in "info reg" description
1351
1352 Sun Aug 16 01:16:18 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1353
1354 * stabs.texinfo: Minor updates from running TeX over it.
1355 * Makefile.in (stabs.dvi, stabs.ps): Add.
1356
1357 Sat Aug 15 20:52:24 1992 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
1358
1359 * stabs.texinfo: Stabs documentation, written by Julia Menapace.
1360 First pass at converting it to texinfo.
1361
1362 Sat Aug 15 03:14:59 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1363
1364 * gdb.texinfo, refcard.tex: Document mult args on `info reg'.
1365 * Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Add missing $(srdir).
1366
1367 Fri Aug 14 21:08:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
1368
1369 * gdbint.texinfo: Add section on partial symbol tables.
1370
1371 Sat Jun 20 16:31:10 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
1372
1373 * gdb.texinfo: document `set remotedebug' and `set
1374 rstack_high_address'.
1375
1376 Thu May 14 17:09:48 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
1377
1378 * gdb.texinfo: slight expansion of new text on reading info files
1379 * gdbinv-s.m4.in: correct and expand info on cross-debugging
1380 H8/300 from DOS.
1381
1382 Tue May 12 12:22:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
1383
1384 * gdb.texinfo: `info user' => `show user'. Noticed by David Taylor.
1385
1386 Mon May 11 19:06:27 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
1387
1388 * gdb.texinfo: Say how to read the `info' files.
1389
1390 Tue May 5 12:11:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
1391
1392 * Makefile.in: gm4 -> m4.
1393
1394 Fri Apr 10 17:50:43 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at rtl.cygnus.com)
1395
1396 * gdb.texinfo: Update for GDB-4.5. Move `Formatting
1397 Documentation' ahead of `Installing GDB' to match README.
1398 Update shared library doc, -readnow and -mapped, and directory
1399 structure (add glob and mmalloc). Update configure doc.
1400
1401 Tue Mar 24 23:28:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
1402
1403 * Makefile.in: remove $(srcdir) from gdb.info rule.
1404
1405 Sat Mar 7 18:44:50 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@rtl.cygnus.com)
1406
1407 * Makefile.in: commented out gdb-all.texinfo rule. This is
1408 temporary.
1409
1410 Wed Feb 26 18:04:40 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
1411
1412 * Makefile.in, configure.in: removed traces of namesubdir,
1413 -subdirs, $(subdir), $(unsubdir), some rcs triggers. Forced
1414 copyrights to '92, changed some from Cygnus to FSF.
1415
1416 Fri Dec 13 09:47:31 1991 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
1417
1418 * gdb.texinfo: Improve how we ask for bug reports.
1419
1420 Tue Dec 10 04:07:21 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
1421
1422 * Makefile.in: infodir belongs in datadir.
1423
1424 Fri Dec 6 23:57:34 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
1425
1426 * Makefile.in: remove spaces following hyphens, bsd make can't
1427 cope. install using INSTALL_DATA. added clean-info. added
1428 standards.text support.
1429
1430 Thu Dec 5 22:46:12 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
1431
1432 * Makefile.in: idestdir and ddestdir go away. Added copyrights
1433 and shift gpl to v2. Added ChangeLog if it didn't exist. docdir
1434 and mandir now keyed off datadir by default.
1435
1436 \f
1437 Local Variables:
1438 mode: indented-text
1439 left-margin: 8
1440 fill-column: 74
1441 version-control: never
1442 End:
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