[RFA/NEWS] Document improvements related to Ada debugging

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Wed Feb 13 23:45:00 GMT 2008


> > 2008-02-07  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
> > 
> >         * NEWS: Add entry describing Add support improvements.
> > 
> > OK to apply?
> 
> The text is okay, but please don't capitalize the words after
> semi-colons, it's against the rules of English.  If you want to make
> the items stand out, how about making it an itemized list?

I don't mind putting them in an itemized list, but I was afraid that
this might give the impression that the list is exhaustive. I just
wanted to give a feel of what the improvements were without going
into much detail.

I will attach two versions. One that just fixes the capitalization,
and one that uses the itemized list. Let me know which one you think
is best.

I tend to actually like the itemized version a little better, because
it's dissociates each element of the list from the other, but that's
only a slight preference.

Thanks,
-- 
Joel
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Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.256
diff -u -p -r1.256 NEWS
--- NEWS	7 Feb 2008 19:23:10 -0000	1.256
+++ NEWS	13 Feb 2008 23:39:32 -0000
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ Decimal Floating Point extension.  In ad
 now has a set of pseudo-registers to inspect decimal float values
 stored in two consecutive float registers.
 
+* Improved support for debugging Ada
+  Many improvements to the Ada language support have been made.  These
+  include: Better support for Ada2005 interface types; improved handling
+  of arrays and slices in general; better support for Taft-amendment types;
+  the '{type} ADDRESS' expression is now allowed on the left hand-side of
+  an assignment; improved command completion in Ada; and several bug fixes.
+
 * New commands
 
 set print frame-arguments (all|scalars|none)
-------------- next part --------------
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.256
diff -u -p -r1.256 NEWS
--- NEWS	7 Feb 2008 19:23:10 -0000	1.256
+++ NEWS	13 Feb 2008 23:44:07 -0000
@@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ Decimal Floating Point extension.  In ad
 now has a set of pseudo-registers to inspect decimal float values
 stored in two consecutive float registers.
 
+* Improved support for debugging Ada
+  Many improvements to the Ada language support have been made.  These
+  include:
+    - Better support for Ada2005 interface types
+    - Improved handling of arrays and slices in general
+    - Better support for Taft-amendment types
+    - The '{type} ADDRESS' expression is now allowed on the left hand-side
+      of an assignment
+    - Improved command completion in Ada
+    - Several bug fixes
+
 * New commands
 
 set print frame-arguments (all|scalars|none)


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