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Re: RFA: manual updates for c++
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:24:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: RFA: manual updates for c++
- References: <m3mxc3byv7.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:45:16 -0700
>
> This needs a doc review.
>
> While looking at the manual, I noticed some outdated advice and some
> missing information about C++ debugging. This patch fixes the problems.
Thank you for doing this.
> Both -gstabs+ and -gdwarf-2 are obsolete nowadays
On most platforms, but not on all of them. It's true that -gdwarf-2
is the default, though.
> + Starting with version
> +4.7, @value{NGCC} can emit macro information in a more compact format.
Why is this part important to a GDB user?
> + Recent versions of @value{NGCC} support @option{-gdwarf-3}
> +@option{-gdwarf-4};
Should there be an "and" between the two option names? They are
orthogonal, right?
OK with these fixed.
Thanks.