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Re: 5.1 NEWS
- To: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
- Subject: Re: 5.1 NEWS
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 22:43:52 -0400
- Cc: GDB Discussion <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <3B474597.1020708@cygnus.com> <87u20owqvw.fsf@cgsoftware.com>
Hmm, how can I put this.
GDB's Pascal support is new, people will have reasonable expectations
and a keenness to help fix it. GDB's C++ support, on the other hand, is
old. Unless told otherwize, people are going to assume that it all
works perfectly, even for the new v3 C++ ABI.
In using the word ``limited'', I'm trying to set expecations. If you
think there is a better turn of phrase then please put it forward.
Andrew
> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The NEWS file could do with a few more updates.
>>
>> Pascal and ``limited support for the C++ v3.0 ABI'' come to mind.
>
>
> Pascal support doesn't work all that well.
> For starters, it doesn't even set the case sensitivity to off in the language
> definition, for instance. Forget about actually doing good pascal debugging.
> I noticed it barely works when I started verifying i did the right
> thing for fortran and pascal in the new typesystem.
> So if you put something about pascal, put "limited pascal support".