Re: 5.1 NEWS

[Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>]

Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:

> 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.
> 

Err, I have no problem with the words "limited support for the C++
v3.0 ABI". Put whatever you want there.  I'm just concerned that saying just "Pascal support" without
qualifying it will cause the user's expectations to be higher than
they should be.  
I.E. 
If I read in a news file that a debugger now had "Fortran Support",
I'd expect it to be at the same level as all the other languages,
whether it's new or not.

> 	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".
> 

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