[patch]: Fix access to SPU registers for fortran

[Markus Deuling]

Hi,

Daniel Jacobowitz schrieb:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:00:42PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Not without documentation, please.  Syntax that doesn't come from
>>> Fortran (as far as I know) and isn't in the manual might as well not
>>> be there :-)
>> Hmmm, most of the output changes in Markus' patch actually bring the
>> output in line with correct Fortran syntax in the first place ;-)
>>
>> The one addition is the representation of "union" types in the output;
>> this can never happen in regular Fortran, but can happen if you access
>> registers that use a gdbarch-defined union type.  This extension is
>> simply the "C_Union" marker; note that as far as the *parser* is
>> concerned, there is no syntax extension.
>>
>> But I guess you're right that this extension should be documented.
>> I assume the right place would be somewhere in section 12.4.3 Fortran?
> 
> I see.  I didn't realize we already had the % operator that did the
> necessary operation - I must have not found it when this was last
> discussed.
> 
> Maybe we could mention it in the Operators bit of the Fortran
> documentation, and there add that GDB allows it on unions?
> 


thanks for your comments. I added some lines to the documentation.
Is this ok ?

ChangeLog:

	* gdb.texinfo (Fortran Operators): Describe '%' operator.


-- 
  Markus Deuling
  GNU Toolchain for Linux on Cell BE
  deuling@de.ibm.com

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