gdb: Remove support for old mangling schemes

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / doc / stabs.texinfo

diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
index 181e171d8688e130a7d6b7ce4b49f631b3185a9c..fdf68534c66e4a83973c1b381ed094dc45ef9102 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 @setchapternewpage odd
 @settitle STABS
 
+@c man begin INCLUDE
+@include gdb-cfg.texi
+@c man end
+
 @c @finalout
 
 @c This is a dir.info fragment to support semi-automated addition of
@@ -13,7 +17,7 @@
 @end direntry
 
 @copying
-Copyright @copyright{} 1992-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 Contributed by Cygnus Support.  Written by Julia Menapace, Jim Kingdon,
 and David MacKenzie.
 
@@ -4062,7 +4066,8 @@ the @code{.stabstr} section.
 @appendixsec Having the Linker Relocate Stabs in ELF 
 
 This section describes some Sun hacks for Stabs in ELF; it does not
-apply to COFF or SOM.
+apply to COFF or SOM.  While @value{GDBN} no longer supports this hack
+for Sun Stabs in ELF, this section is kept to document the issue.
 
 To keep linking fast, you don't want the linker to have to relocate very
 many stabs.  Making sure this is done for @code{N_SLINE},
@@ -4100,8 +4105,8 @@ the address from the ELF symbols.
 Finding the correct @code{Bbss.bss}, etc., symbol is difficult, because
 the linker simply concatenates the @code{.stab} sections from each
 @file{.o} file without including any information about which part of a
-@code{.stab} section comes from which @file{.o} file.  The way GDB does
-this is to look for an ELF @code{STT_FILE} symbol which has the same
+@code{.stab} section comes from which @file{.o} file.  The way GDB use to
+do this is to look for an ELF @code{STT_FILE} symbol which has the same
 name as the last component of the file name from the @code{N_SO} symbol
 in the stabs (for example, if the file name is @file{../../gdb/main.c},
 it looks for an ELF @code{STT_FILE} symbol named @code{main.c}).  This