Minor "catch" documentation improvements

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / doc / stabs.texinfo

diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
index b2d754632b59fa8a3ce6bdbab0e7eab52d0afcf1..fdf68534c66e4a83973c1b381ed094dc45ef9102 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 @setchapternewpage odd
 @settitle STABS
 
+@c man begin INCLUDE
+@include gdb-cfg.texi
+@c man end
+
 @c @finalout
 
 @c This is a dir.info fragment to support semi-automated addition of
@@ -13,14 +17,12 @@
 @end direntry
 
 @copying
-Copyright @copyright{} 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001,
-2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010
-Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 Contributed by Cygnus Support.  Written by Julia Menapace, Jim Kingdon,
 and David MacKenzie.
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
 Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
 Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
@@ -74,8 +76,8 @@ This document describes the stabs debugging format.
 * Questions::                  Questions and anomalies
 * Stab Sections::              In some object file formats, stabs are
                                 in sections.
-* Symbol Types Index::          Index of symbolic stab symbol type names.
 * GNU Free Documentation License::  The license for this documentation
+* Symbol Types Index::          Index of symbolic stab symbol type names.
 @end menu
 @end ifnottex
 
@@ -4064,7 +4066,8 @@ the @code{.stabstr} section.
 @appendixsec Having the Linker Relocate Stabs in ELF 
 
 This section describes some Sun hacks for Stabs in ELF; it does not
-apply to COFF or SOM.
+apply to COFF or SOM.  While @value{GDBN} no longer supports this hack
+for Sun Stabs in ELF, this section is kept to document the issue.
 
 To keep linking fast, you don't want the linker to have to relocate very
 many stabs.  Making sure this is done for @code{N_SLINE},
@@ -4102,8 +4105,8 @@ the address from the ELF symbols.
 Finding the correct @code{Bbss.bss}, etc., symbol is difficult, because
 the linker simply concatenates the @code{.stab} sections from each
 @file{.o} file without including any information about which part of a
-@code{.stab} section comes from which @file{.o} file.  The way GDB does
-this is to look for an ELF @code{STT_FILE} symbol which has the same
+@code{.stab} section comes from which @file{.o} file.  The way GDB use to
+do this is to look for an ELF @code{STT_FILE} symbol which has the same
 name as the last component of the file name from the @code{N_SO} symbol
 in the stabs (for example, if the file name is @file{../../gdb/main.c},
 it looks for an ELF @code{STT_FILE} symbol named @code{main.c}).  This
@@ -4115,9 +4118,9 @@ is no more work than having the linker relocate ELF symbols, and it
 solves the problem of having to associate the ELF and stab symbols.
 However, no one has yet designed or implemented such a scheme.
 
-@raisesections
+@node GNU Free Documentation License
+@appendix GNU Free Documentation License
 @include fdl.texi
-@lowersections
 
 @node Symbol Types Index
 @unnumbered Symbol Types Index