From: Jim Kingdon Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 17:20:50 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * stabs.texinfo (Arrays): Talk about type definition vs. type X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee59134ee78b9249f9a47cd37201b6bc09ae4904;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git * stabs.texinfo (Arrays): Talk about type definition vs. type information. --- diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 3c15211956..613466a4cb 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ Wed May 26 00:26:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com) + * stabs.texinfo (Arrays): Talk about type definition vs. type + information. + * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting the trailing semicolon. diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo index ac82b0f245..04ed7875c5 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo @@ -1610,6 +1610,16 @@ type is a range type, the extra semicolon can be omitted. GDB (at least through version 4.9) doesn't support any kind of index type other than a range anyway; I'm not sure about dbx. +It is well established, and widely used, that the type of the index, +unlike most types found in the stabs, is merely a type definition +(@pxref{Type Definitions}), not type information (@pxref{Stabs Format}) +(that is, it need not start with @var{type-number}@code{=} if it is +defining a new type). According to a comment in GDB, this is also true +of the type of the array elements; it gives @samp{ar1;1;10;ar1;1;10;4} +as a legitimate way to express a two dimensional array. According to +AIX documentation, the element type must be type information. GDB +accepts either. + The type of the index is often a range type, expressed as the letter r and some parameters. It defines the size of the array. In the example below, the range @code{r1;0;2;} defines an index type which is a