[patch/rfc] mention C++ support in NEWS
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Wed Mar 17 17:32:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:13:31AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:29:06 -0800
> >
> > > IMHO, this text is okay, but perhaps it will sound much more useful if
> > > you add some examples of situations where GDB previously didn't work,
> > > and now does.
> >
> > That's a good point. How about:
> >
> > GDB's support for nested types and namespaces in C++ has been
> > improved, especially if you use the DWARF 2 debugging format. (This
> > is the default for recent versions of GCC on most platforms.)
> > Specifically, if you have a class "Inner" defined within a class or
> > namespace "Outer", then GDB realizes that the class's name is
> > "Outer::Inner", not simply "Inner". This should greatly reduce the
> > frequency of complaints about not finding RTTI symbols. In
> > addition, if you are stopped at inside of a function defined within
> > a namespace, GDB modifies its name lookup accordingly.
>
> This is okay with me.
And with me also. Thanks, David!
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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