From: Tom Tromey Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:35:04 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Async Records): Document that symbols-loaded X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f1cbe1d302a077716bb3e4749ee7bd37b12b3499;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git * gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Async Records): Document that symbols-loaded is not useful. --- diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 95c58f4230..b058fa0bd9 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2011-02-04 Tom Tromey + + * gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Async Records): Document that symbols-loaded + is not useful. + 2011-01-25 Pedro Alves * gdb.texinfo: s/value optimized out/optimized out/g diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 5dc0af0bef..5ec7c1a6c9 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -24771,11 +24771,12 @@ opaque identifier of the library. For remote debugging case, @var{target-name} and @var{host-name} fields give the name of the library file on the target, and on the host respectively. For native debugging, both those fields have the same value. The -@var{symbols-loaded} field reports if the debug symbols for this -library are loaded. The @var{thread-group} field, if present, -specifies the id of the thread group in whose context the library was loaded. -If the field is absent, it means the library was loaded in the context -of all present thread groups. +@var{symbols-loaded} field is emitted only for backward compatibility +and should not be relied on to convey any useful information. The +@var{thread-group} field, if present, specifies the id of the thread +group in whose context the library was loaded. If the field is +absent, it means the library was loaded in the context of all present +thread groups. @item =library-unloaded,... Reports that a library was unloaded by the program. This notification