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| author | Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> | 2020-11-24 07:08:42 +0400 |
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| committer | Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> | 2020-11-24 07:08:42 +0400 |
| commit | fa123c32812987da71b0b1d664f0c80aa2c9d707 (patch) | |
| tree | 113c4b1ba51ecaf8b639a56c5027745a7e626dab | |
| parent | 0fb8bb022e4e8ed0775fb7c753d912283253d383 (diff) | |
| download | binutils-gdb-fa123c32812987da71b0b1d664f0c80aa2c9d707.tar.gz | |
gdb/NEWS: Document that GDB now supports DWARF-based fixed point types
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Add entry documenting support for DWARF-based fixed
point types.
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index f74588dfcbb..2a29c1c7660 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2020-11-24 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> + * NEWS: Add entry documenting support for DWARF-based fixed + point types. + +2020-11-24 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> + * NEWS: Document that building GDB now requires GMP. 2020-11-24 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> @@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ $HOME/.gdbinit. On Apple hosts the search order is instead: $HOME/Library/Preferences/gdb/gdbinit, $HOME/.gdbinit. +* GDB now supports fixed point types which are described in DWARF + as base types with a fixed-point encoding. Additionally, support + for the DW_AT_GNU_numerator and DW_AT_GNU_denominator has also + been added. + + For Ada, this allows support for fixed point types without requiring + the use of the GNAT encoding (based on information added to the type's + name following a GNAT-specific format). + * New commands set debug event-loop |