* stabs.texinfo: Fix description of floating point "range"

types (which really define basic types).  Reported by Jim Meehan,
<meehan@src.dec.com>.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index ff77488c1c5edace28a4e64d440e2c11d6102cd4..c0464b2ab1964119e175ffa2f3ce8c3990f1e3ed 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Fri Feb  5 14:10:15 1993  John Gilmore  (gnu@cygnus.com)
 
+       * stabs.texinfo:  Fix description of floating point "range"
+       types (which really define basic types).  Reported by Jim Meehan,
+       <meehan@src.dec.com>.
+
        * gdbint.texinfo:  Remove COFF_NO_LONG_FILE_NAMES define, now gone.
 
 Thu Feb  4 13:56:46 1993  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@cygnus.com)

diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
index 526d8565890889127bace21bdcc0beb27abcf8ca..eb5f47761813d6e7ac9bc71a1be3fbe318b25919 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ represents the procedure itself.  The @code{N_LBRAC} uses the
 @menu
 * Basic types:: Basic type definitions
 * Range types:: Range types defined by min and max value 
-* Bit-ranges:: Range type defined by number of bits
+* Float "range" types:: Range type defined by size in bytes
 @end menu
 
 @node Basic types
@@ -529,17 +529,20 @@ range of type @code{int}, with a minimum value of 0 and a maximum of 65535.
 13 .stabs "short unsigned int:t8=r1;0;65535;",128,0,0,0
 @end example
 
-@node Bit-ranges
-@section Range type defined by number of bits
+@node Float "range" types
+@section Range type defined by size in bytes
 
 @table @strong
 @item Type Descriptor:
 @code{r}
 @end table
 
-In a range definition, if the number after the second semicolon is 0,
-then the number after the first semicolon is the number of bits needed
-to represent the type.
+In a range definition, if the first number after the semicolon is
+positive and the second is zero, then the type being defined is a
+floating point type, and the number after the first semicolon is the
+number of bytes needed to represent the type.  Note that this does not
+provide a way to distinguish 8-byte real floating point types from
+8-byte complex floating point types.
 
 @example
 .stabs "@var{name}: