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Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
- From: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
- To: carlton at kealia dot com, eliz at elta dot co dot il
- Cc: drow at mvista dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:28:33 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
That's a good point. How about:
GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
"Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
My two cents: looks okay to me.
Michael C