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Re: Demanger in gdb's NEWS file
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 03 Dec 2003 14:53:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: Demanger in gdb's NEWS file
- References: <3FCE39C0.70403@gnu.org>
Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:
> Suggest adding an entry to GDB's news file mentioning that there's a
> new demangler - It's very news worthy and very user visible (and GDB
> could easily be the first kid on the block with a new release
> containing that code).
OK, I checked in the appended. I can adjust if anybody likes, or feel
free to adjust it yourself.
(I have to admit that when I started this work I wasn't thinking of
GDB at all.)
Ian
2003-12-03 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
* NEWS: Mention new C++ demangler code.
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.129
diff -u -r1.129 NEWS
--- NEWS 1 Dec 2003 21:10:46 -0000 1.129
+++ NEWS 3 Dec 2003 19:52:33 -0000
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
*** Changes since GDB 6.0:
+* New C++ demangler
+
+GDB has a new C++ demangler which does a better job on the mangled
+names generated by current versions of g++. It also runs faster, so
+with this and other changes gdb should now start faster on large C++
+programs.
+
* DWARF 2 Location Expressions
GDB support for location expressions has been extended to support function