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Thu Jul 1 14:57:42 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* refcard.tex (\hoffset): correct longstanding error to match
intended offset; avoids cutting off edge on some printers
Wed Jun 30 18:23:06 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Say that order of stabs is significant.
Fri Jun 25 21:34:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Common Blocks): Say what Sun FORTRAN does.
Fri Jun 25 16:15:10 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in: (REFEDITS) new var to control whether PS or CM
fonts and whether US or A4 paper for GDB refcard; (refcard.dvi)
collect sed edits if any, apply to refcard before formatting;
(refcard.ps) stop implying PS fonts if PS output requested;
(lrefcard.ps) delete extra target for variant PS fonts
* refcard.tex: parametrize papersize dependent info, collect
in easily replaced spot
* a4rc.sed: new file, edits to refcard for A4 paper
Fri Jun 25 14:21:46 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Type -16 is 4 bytes.
Wed Jun 23 15:02:50 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Negative Type Numbers): Minor character cleanups.
Tue Jun 22 16:31:52 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Express disapproval of 'D' symbol descriptor
politely rather than rudely.
Mon Jun 21 12:31:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* snapshots.readme: Tell people to always report missing files.
Fri Jun 18 19:42:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Document common blocks.
Fri Jun 18 12:12:57 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Add some basic info about stabs-in-elf.
1993-06-18 21:01:43 +02:00
Fri Jun 18 13:57:09 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Top): Minor cleanup.
1993-06-18 03:00:13 +02:00
Mon Jun 14 16:16:51 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at rtl.cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in (install-info): remove parentdir support
Tue Jun 15 18:11:39 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo (Copying): delete this node and references to it;
RMS says this manual need not carry GPL. (passim): Improvements
from last round at FSF, largely due to Ian Taylor review, and
minor formatting improvements.
* gdbinv-s.texi (passim): Improvements from last round at FSF,
largely due to Ian Taylor review. (Debug Session): minor edits to
new text.
Sun Jun 13 12:52:39 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in (realclean): Remove info and dvi files too.
Sat Jun 12 16:09:22 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* {all,h8}-config.texi: Rename to *-cfg.texi for 14 char filenames.
* Makefile.in: Change accordingly. gdb-config.texi -> gdb-cfg.texi.
1993-06-13 03:24:24 +02:00
* gdb.texinfo: Change accordingly.
* stabs.texinfo: Clean up N_{L,R}BRAC. Discuss what addresses of
N_{L,R}BRAC,N_SLINE are relative to.
Fri Jun 11 15:15:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in (GDBvn.texi): Update atomically.
Wed Jun 9 10:58:16 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* gdbinv-s.texi (Debug Session): Document exceptionHook.
Tue Jun 8 13:42:04 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo (Print Settings): Move all stuff relating to symbolic
addresses together. Also motivate the set print symbol-filename
command and suggest other solutions.
Tue Jun 1 22:46:43 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo (set print elements): Note that the number of
elements is set to unlimited by "set print elements 0".
Mon May 31 08:06:55 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Try to clarify what
NF_LDOUBLE means.
(Stab Types): Include Solaris stab types.
(Procedures): Document Solaris extensions.
Thu May 27 06:20:42 1993 Peter Schauer (pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
* gdb.texinfo: Add `set print symbol-filename' doc.
Wed May 26 00:26:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Arrays): Talk about type definition vs. type
information.
* stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting
the trailing semicolon.
Tue May 25 14:49:42 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Line Numbers, Source Files): Re-write these two nodes
and merge in other parts of the document addressing these subjects.
gdbint.texinfo (XCOFF): Remove info which is now in stabs.texinfo.
* stabs.texinfo (Subranges, Arrays): Try to explain about the semicolon
at the end of a range type.
* stabs.texinfo (Subranges): "A offset" and "T offset" are not
AIX extensions.
Mon May 24 11:09:06 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
* snapshots.readme: Clarify when obvious and non-obvious bugs
should be reported.
Mon May 24 09:00:33 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Stabs Format): Misc fixes.
Sat May 22 10:40:56 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Constants): Allow an `e' constant to be non-enum.
(Traditional builtin types): Document convex convention for long long.
1993-05-22 21:47:55 +02:00
(Negative builtin types): Discuss type names, and misc fixes.
Fri May 21 11:20:31 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Document the floating
point types used with @samp{R} type descriptor.
(Symbol Descriptors): Describe how to handle conflict between
different meanings of @samp{P} symbol descriptor.
Thu May 20 13:35:10 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Remove node Quick Reference and put its children
directly under the main menu.
* stabs.texinfo: Many more changes to bring it into line with
AIX documentation and reality. I think it now has all the
information from the AIX documentation, except that I burned
out when I got to variant records (Pascal and Modula-2) and
all the COBOL types. Oh well, we can add them later when we're
worrying more about those languages.
* stabs.texinfo (Automatic variables): Talk about what it means
to omit the symbol descriptor.
Tue May 18 17:59:18 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Add "(sometimes)" when describing
gcc2 behavior with promoted args.
Fri May 14 21:35:29 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: include readline appendices in info version of manual
Fri May 7 11:56:18 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdbinv-s.texi (Remote Serial): describe new ^C behavior in
target remote.
* gdb.texinfo (Machine Code): more index entries for disassemble
Fri May 7 10:12:30 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
* Clarify the intended use of the gdb-testers and gdb-patches
mailing lists, and shrink gzip comment.
Thu May 6 16:39:50 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): do not mention SHELL env var in
DOSHOST configuration of manual.
1993-05-07 02:08:35 +02:00
* gdb.texinfo (MIPS Stack): new node.
* all-config.texi (MIPS) new switch.
* gdbinv-s.texi (Nindy Options) Remove two instances of future
tense; (MIPS Remote) new node.
* gdb.texinfo (passim) rephrases to work around makeinfo @value
bug; (Environment) less passive, other small cleanups in text about
.cshrc/.bashrc; (Invoking GDB) new MIPS Remote menu entry;
(Remote) new MIPS Remote menu entry.
Thu May 6 08:51:35 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
* snapshots.readme: Add notes for UNIX make and GNU make.
Mon May 3 17:06:45 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
* snapshots.readme: Clarify bison/byacc/yacc notes.
Thu Apr 29 09:36:25 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Many changes to include information from the
AIX documentation.
* gdb.texinfo (Environment): Mention pitfall with .cshrc.
Tue Apr 27 14:02:57 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo (new node Debugging GDB, elsewhere):
Move a bunch of information from ../README.
(Getting Started): New node.
Fri Apr 23 17:21:13 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo: include Hitachi SH target
* gdb.texinfo: advance manual revision dates to present
* gdbinv-s.texi, gdb.texinfo, all-config.texi, h8-config.texi:
stop using silly Roman numerals in @set variable names
Fri Apr 23 07:30:01 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Keep trying to get this right.
Wed Apr 21 15:18:47 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Parameters): More on "local parameters".
Mon Apr 19 08:00:51 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Parameters): Re-do "local parameters" section.
Sun Apr 18 09:47:45 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo (Symbol descriptors): Re-do using @table and @xref.
(Parameters): Rewrite.
(xcoff-differences, Sun-differences): Minor changes.
1993-04-15 11:35:54 +02:00
Thu Apr 15 02:35:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cacophony.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Minor cleanup.
1993-04-15 02:33:51 +02:00
Wed Apr 14 17:31:00 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Minor xcoff stuff.
Wed Apr 7 14:11:07 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Update for new config directory structure.
Add info about internal type data structures.
Mon Apr 5 09:06:30 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in (SFILES_INCLUDED): gdb-config.texi is no longer in
$(srcdir).
(gdb-config.texi): Depend on file in $(srcdir).
1993-04-03 03:04:39 +02:00
Fri Apr 2 16:55:13 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Fixes about N_SO.
1993-03-27 03:06:18 +01:00
Fri Mar 26 18:00:35 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: include list of nonstandard init file names
* *-config.texi: new switch GENERIC for text that applies *only*
to (usual) multiple-target version of manual
* gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: Update conditional markup to correct
h8 config
* gdb.texinfo: depend on latest fixed makeinfo, use conditionals
in menus (rather than conditionally selected multiple alternative
menus).
* Makefile.in: define and use DOC_CONFIG var to select
configuration for GDB user manual.
* gdb-config.texi: delete from repository, generate from Makefile.
* all-config.texi: normal `generic' configuration file, formerly
stored as gdb-config.texi
1993-03-24 23:07:34 +01:00
Wed Mar 24 14:03:19 1993 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at poseidon.cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in: add dvi target to build all .dvi files
1993-03-24 01:04:31 +01:00
Tue Mar 23 16:03:24 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo, gdvinv-s.texinfo: formatting improvements.
Fri Mar 19 21:46:50 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Doc NO_MMALLOC and NO_MMALLOC_CHECK as
host conditionals.
* stabs.texinfo: More array fixes inspired by Jim's.
1993-03-19 19:25:16 +01:00
Fri Mar 19 10:23:34 1993 Jim Kingdon (kingdon@cygnus.com)
1993-03-19 19:48:45 +01:00
* stabs.texinfo: Fixes re arrays and continuations.
1993-03-19 19:25:16 +01:00
* gdbint.texinfo: Add XCOFF node.
Mon Mar 8 15:52:18 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: Add `set print max-symbolic-offset' doc.
Sun Feb 21 17:09:38 1993 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Fix for array types to mention lower bounds.
Thu Feb 18 01:19:49 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Update PTRACE_ARG3_TYPE doc, pull PT_*.
Wed Feb 17 08:15:24 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Remove SET_STACK_LIMIT_HUGE from target defines.
Thu Feb 11 10:38:40 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Fix thinko (NM_FILE => NAT_FILE). Found
by Michael Ben-Gershon <mybg@CS.HUJI.AC.IL>.
Wed Feb 10 23:59:19 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Eliminate IBM6000_HOST, document IBM6000_TARGET.
1993-02-10 03:28:16 +01:00
Tue Feb 9 18:26:21 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: misc updates
Sat Feb 6 10:25:47 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Brief documentation for longjmp support,
from an email msg by Stu.
Fri Feb 5 14:10:15 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Fix description of floating point "range"
types (which really define basic types). Reported by Jim Meehan,
<meehan@src.dec.com>.
* gdbint.texinfo: Remove COFF_NO_LONG_FILE_NAMES define, now gone.
Thu Feb 4 13:56:46 1993 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Slightly expand section on supporting a new
object file format.
Thu Feb 4 01:49:04 1993 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Remove psref.tex
intermediate file.
Tue Feb 2 12:18:06 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo, gdbinv-s.texi: miscellaneous stylistic cleanups
Mon Feb 1 15:35:47 1993 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdbinv-s.texi: z8000 simulator target name is just "sim"
* gdbinv-s.texi: Mention that Z8000 simulator can simulate Z8001
as well as Z8002.
Sat Nov 28 06:51:35 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Add sections on clean design and on how to send
in changes.
Mon Nov 9 23:57:02 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Add how to declare the result of make_cleanup.
1992-10-26 20:10:23 +01:00
Mon Oct 26 11:09:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: Fix typo, reported by Karl Berry.
Fri Oct 23 00:41:21 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: Add opcodes dir to GDB distribution description.
1992-10-11 02:06:17 +01:00
Sat Oct 10 18:04:58 1992 david d `zoo' zuhn (zoo at cirdan.cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: fixed a stray email address (needs @@),
added @table @code to node "Native Conditionals"
1992-09-22 09:34:45 +02:00
Tue Sep 22 00:34:15 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Describe coding style of GDB.
1992-09-22 04:32:39 +02:00
Mon Sep 21 19:32:16 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Minor wording changes.
1992-09-17 13:22:54 +02:00
Tue Sep 15 02:57:09 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Improve release doc slightly.
1992-09-11 11:31:19 +02:00
Fri Sep 11 01:34:25 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@sphagnum.cygnus.com)
1992-09-17 13:22:54 +02:00
* gdbint.texinfo: Improve doc of GDB config macros.
1992-09-11 11:31:19 +02:00
Wed Sep 9 16:52:06 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Remove Bothner's changes for C++ nested types.
These will be reinserted when examined.
Mon Aug 24 01:17:55 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Make a start at documenting all the #if macros
in GDB. At least list them all, and start separating them into
host-specific and target-specific.
Tue Aug 18 15:59:13 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdbinv-s.m4.in: refrain from using @cartouche for just a few
examples (not consistent w others).
gdb.texinfo: issue disclaimer paragraph on cmdline options only
for generic vn of doc
Tue Aug 18 14:53:27 1992 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in: always create installation directories.
Tue Aug 18 14:11:50 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: in h8 config, do not describe searching commands.
Mon Aug 17 18:07:59 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo, none.m4, h8.m4, gdbinv-s.m4.in: improve H8/300
conditionals; introduce a few generic switches that may be
useful for other cross-dev or dos-hosted configs.
* gdb.texinfo: fix typo in "info reg" description
Sun Aug 16 01:16:18 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Minor updates from running TeX over it.
* Makefile.in (stabs.dvi, stabs.ps): Add.
Sat Aug 15 20:52:24 1992 Per Bothner (bothner@rtl.cygnus.com)
* stabs.texinfo: Stabs documentation, written by Julia Menapace.
First pass at converting it to texinfo.
Sat Aug 15 03:14:59 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo, refcard.tex: Document mult args on `info reg'.
* Makefile.in (refcard.ps, lrefcard.ps): Add missing $(srdir).
1992-08-15 06:12:16 +02:00
Fri Aug 14 21:08:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu@cygnus.com)
* gdbint.texinfo: Add section on partial symbol tables.
Sat Jun 20 16:31:10 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: document `set remotedebug' and `set
rstack_high_address'.
Thu May 14 17:09:48 1992 Roland H. Pesch (pesch@fowanton.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: slight expansion of new text on reading info files
* gdbinv-s.m4.in: correct and expand info on cross-debugging
H8/300 from DOS.
Tue May 12 12:22:47 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: `info user' => `show user'. Noticed by David Taylor.
1992-05-12 04:10:59 +02:00
Mon May 11 19:06:27 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: Say how to read the `info' files.
1992-05-05 21:12:05 +02:00
Tue May 5 12:11:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in: gm4 -> m4.
Fri Apr 10 17:50:43 1992 John Gilmore (gnu at rtl.cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: Update for GDB-4.5. Move `Formatting
Documentation' ahead of `Installing GDB' to match README.
Update shared library doc, -readnow and -mapped, and directory
structure (add glob and mmalloc). Update configure doc.
1992-03-25 08:29:45 +01:00
Tue Mar 24 23:28:38 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in: remove $(srcdir) from gdb.info rule.
Sat Mar 7 18:44:50 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@rtl.cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in: commented out gdb-all.texinfo rule. This is
temporary.
Wed Feb 26 18:04:40 1992 K. Richard Pixley (rich@cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in, configure.in: removed traces of namesubdir,
-subdirs, $(subdir), $(unsubdir), some rcs triggers. Forced
copyrights to '92, changed some from Cygnus to FSF.
1991-12-13 18:48:06 +01:00
Fri Dec 13 09:47:31 1991 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
* gdb.texinfo: Improve how we ask for bug reports.
1991-12-11 05:15:50 +01:00
Tue Dec 10 04:07:21 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in: infodir belongs in datadir.
Fri Dec 6 23:57:34 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in: remove spaces following hyphens, bsd make can't
cope. install using INSTALL_DATA. added clean-info. added
standards.text support.
Thu Dec 5 22:46:12 1991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at rtl.cygnus.com)
* Makefile.in: idestdir and ddestdir go away. Added copyrights
and shift gpl to v2. Added ChangeLog if it didn't exist. docdir
and mandir now keyed off datadir by default.
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