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Re: [commit] Use true boolean types in Ada
- From: Paul Hilfinger <Hilfinger at adacore dot com>
- To: eliz at gnu dot org
- Cc: Hilfinger at adacore dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:15:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [commit] Use true boolean types in Ada
- References: <200808200249.m7K2nRJq016841@tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <20080820075548.C8C35227B28@nile.gnat.com> <umyj74s0w.fsf@gnu.org>
- Reply-to: Hilfinger at adacore dot com
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote,
> > > Can you suggest a write-up for the manual nonetheless? I'd like to
> > > see how obscure is "obscure" in this case.
> >
> > > Is there any reasonable way of stating the effect of this on
> > > user-level features? If so, I'd prefer to at least mention them, if
> > > not replace the above with them.
> >
> > Is this more what you have in mind? If so, I'll commit it:
>
> Yes, this sounds good. Please commit.
OK, I have committed the following:
src/gdb/ChangeLog
2008-08-21 Paul N. Hilfinger <hilfingr@syracuse.mckusick.com>
* NEWS: Amplify last entry on boolean types in Ada.
src/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2008-08-21 Paul N. Hilfinger <hilfingr@syracuse.mckusick.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Omissions from Ada): Describe new treatment of True
and False.
Index: src/gdb/NEWS
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.286
diff -u -p -r1.286 NEWS
--- src/gdb/NEWS 20 Aug 2008 04:58:34 -0000 1.286
+++ src/gdb/NEWS 21 Aug 2008 08:57:15 -0000
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ conditions handling signals delivered du
have also been fixed.
* GDB now supports the use of DWARF boolean types for Ada's type Boolean.
+From the user's standpoint, all unqualified instances of True and False
+are treated as the standard definitions, regardless of context.
* New features in the GDB remote stub, gdbserver
Index: src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.518
diff -u -p -r1.518 gdb.texinfo
--- src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 20 Aug 2008 04:57:32 -0000 1.518
+++ src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 21 Aug 2008 08:57:30 -0000
@@ -11218,6 +11218,14 @@ formats are not supported.
@item
It is not possible to slice a packed array.
+
+@item
+The names @code{True} and @code{False}, when not part of a qualified name,
+are interpreted as if implicitly prefixed by @code{Standard}, regardless of
+context.
+Should your program
+redefine these names in a package or procedure (at best a dubious practice),
+you will have to use fully qualified names to access their new definitions.
@end itemize
@node Additions to Ada