* stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting

	the trailing semicolon.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index d31db72919e77427d63bb0422e2bc77c86b61345..3c15211956e13217835e85791088bb103e4a8e9d 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed May 26 00:26:42 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
+
+       * stabs.texinfo (Builtin Type Descriptors): Talk about omitting
+       the trailing semicolon.
+
 Tue May 25 14:49:42 1993  Jim Kingdon  (kingdon@lioth.cygnus.com)
 
        * stabs.texinfo (Line Numbers, Source Files): Re-write these two nodes

diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
index e626d6300008eae7f7a6e11281c88402938750d7..cc53dae077d585af161616cdd11adbd79a846b3e 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo
@@ -1340,6 +1340,10 @@ The C @code{void} type is defined as a signed integral type 0 bits long:
 @example
 .stabs "void:t19=bs0;0;0",128,0,0,0
 @end example
+The Solaris compiler seems to omit the trailing semicolon in this case.
+Getting sloppy in this way is not a swift move because if a type is
+embedded in a more complex expression it is necessary to be able to tell
+where it ends.
 
 I'm not sure how a boolean type is represented.