From 6d0380ee8301a55abbb26f6a239b5bfdce42d8a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Gilmore Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 12:08:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix up NEWS file for G++ bug. --- gdb/NEWS | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index a63b40e772..8614572cc8 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ GDB now supports HP PA-RISC machines running HPUX. A preliminary version of this support was available as a set of patches from the University of Utah. GDB does not support debugging of programs compiled with the HP compiler, because HP will not document their file -format. Instead, you must use GCC (version 2.3.3 or later) and PA-GAS +format. Instead, you must use GCC (version 2.3.2 or later) and PA-GAS (as available from jaguar.cs.utah.edu:/dist/pa-gas.u4.tar.Z). Many problems in the preliminary version have been fixed. @@ -28,6 +28,19 @@ symbol lookups. from the specifications in the Annotated Reference Manual, which AT&T's compiler does not actually implement. + * G++ multiple inheritance compiler problem + +In the 2.3.2 release of gcc/g++, how the compiler resolves multiple +inheritance lattices was reworked to properly discover ambiguities. We +recently found an example which causes this new algorithm to fail in a +very subtle way, producing bad debug information for those classes. +The file 'gcc.patch' (in this directory) can be applied to gcc to +circumvent the problem. A future GCC release will contain a complete +fix. + +The previous G++ debug info problem (mentioned below for the gdb-4.7 +release) is fixed in gcc version 2.3.2. + * Improved configure script The `configure' script will now attempt to guess your system type if