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diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo index 1dc0d063cd9..3f91fd37a10 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.'' @page @tex \def\$#1${{#1}} % Kluge: collect RCS revision info without $...$ -\xdef\manvers{\$Revision: 1.7 $} % For use in headers, footers too +\xdef\manvers{\$Revision: 1.7.8.1 $} % For use in headers, footers too {\parskip=0pt \hfill Cygnus Support\par \hfill \manvers\par @@ -1754,8 +1754,7 @@ Pascal set type. @var{type-information} must be a small type such as an enumeration or a subrange, and the type is a bitmask whose length is specified by the number of elements in @var{type-information}. -In CHILL, @c OBSOLETE -if it is a bitstring instead of a set, also use the @samp{S} +In CHILL, if it is a bitstring instead of a set, also use the @samp{S} type attribute (@pxref{String Field}). @item * @var{type-information} @@ -1956,8 +1955,7 @@ string. I don't know the difference. Pascal Stringptr. What is this? This is an AIX feature. @end table -Languages, such as CHILL @c OBSOLETE -which have a string type which is basically +Languages, such as CHILL which have a string type which is basically just an array of characters use the @samp{S} type attribute (@pxref{String Field}). @@ -2726,11 +2724,22 @@ compiler it can also be used in other contexts. @node Member Type Descriptor @section The @samp{@@} Type Descriptor -The @samp{@@} type descriptor is for a member (class and variable) type. -It is followed by type information for the offset basetype, a comma, and -type information for the type of the field being pointed to. (FIXME: -this is acknowledged to be gibberish. Can anyone say what really goes -here?). +The @samp{@@} type descriptor is used together with the @samp{*} type +descriptor for a pointer-to-non-static-member-data type. It is followed +by type information for the class (or union), a comma, and type +information for the member data. + +The following C++ source: + +@smallexample +typedef int A::*int_in_a; +@end smallexample + +generates the following stab: + +@smallexample +.stabs "int_in_a:t20=*21=@@19,1",128,0,0,0 +@end smallexample Note that there is a conflict between this and type attributes (@pxref{String Field}); both use type descriptor @samp{@@}. |