2001-11-05 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>

	* gdb.texinfo (info functions): Document use of backslash to
	quote regexp chars in function names such as "operator*()".

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index dfde0f2b77d712c283213ca9ec8e281db0183d1c..e7c127959ad068c8ad7f16c8e249775b68c24ba9 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-11-05  Michael Snyder  <msnyder@redhat.com>
+
+       * gdb.texinfo (info functions): Document use of backslash to 
+       quote regexp chars in function names such as "operator*()".
+
 2001-11-01  Fred Fish  <fnf@redhat.com>
 
        * gdbint.texinfo (SOLIB_ADD): Document additional new

diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index bfa50a281dd903bac9c4ed25fd2ec51d0512871c..dec8be4bd363107a0159eb7079fc832c290045b7 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -8290,7 +8290,9 @@ Print the names and data types of all defined functions
 whose names contain a match for regular expression @var{regexp}.
 Thus, @samp{info fun step} finds all functions whose names
 include @code{step}; @samp{info fun ^step} finds those whose names
-start with @code{step}.
+start with @code{step}.  If a function name contains characters 
+that conflict with the regular expression language (eg. 
+@samp{operator*()}), they may be quoted with a backslash.
 
 @kindex info variables
 @item info variables