RFA: doc/stabs.texinfo off-by-one and spelling fixes

Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
Wed Jul 5 14:57:00 GMT 2000


Nick Duffek wrote:
> 
> While reading through gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo, I found a few spelling errors
> and the following possible semantic error:
> 
>   "The GNU and Sun tools additionally permit a TYPE-NUMBER to be a pair
>    (FILE-NUMBER,FILETYPE-NUMBER) (the parentheses appear in the string,
>    and serve to distinguish the two cases).  The FILE-NUMBER is a number
>    starting with 1 which is incremented for each separate source file in
>    the compilation (e.g., in C, each header file gets a different
>    number)."
> 
> >From what I can tell by looking at GCC's output, FILE-NUMBER is 0 for .c
> files, 1 for the first #include file, 2 for the next, and so on.

The original phrasing leaves it a bit ambiguous as to whether "source file"
is supposed to mean both .c and .h or not, so I would suggest expanding it
to say what you just wrote ("0 for .c files...."), since that's much clearer.

> The appended patch changes "1" to "0" in the above quoted paragraph and
> fixes a bunch of spelling errors.

Oh yeah, the spelling fixes are great, thanks!

Stan


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