Re: [patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:13:31AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:29:06 -0800
> > 
> > > IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> > > you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> > > and now does.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> This is okay with me.

And with me also.  Thanks, David!

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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