Unreviewed Patch [Was: Patch: dbxout.c: Fix symbol-table entry descriptioncomment]

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

Hi,

    This trivial patch of mine submitted in Nov 2002
went unreviewed at the time:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-11/msg01896.html

Can someone please review and commit it if
it is acceptable?

Thanks.

Ranjit.

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Hi,

     While browsing through "gcc/dbxout.c" recently trying
to understand stabs output, I noticed a discrepancy in
the leader comment w.r.t. to what actually was being
done by the dbxout_symbol( ) and dbxout_finish_symbol( )
functions - a stabs symbol table entry has *five*
operands instead of the four indicated by the comment (it
misses out the "description" field).

The following patch proposes to fix this anomaly.

ChangeLog:

2002-11-29  Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@hotmail.com>

     * dbxout.c: Fix stabs symbol table entry description
     comment to include the "description" operand to the
     .stabs assembler pseudo-op.

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--- dbxout.c    Fri Nov 29 11:24:28 2002
+++ dbxout.c    Fri Nov 29 11:28:53 2002
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@
  /* Output dbx-format symbol table data.
     This consists of many symbol table entries, each of them
-   a .stabs assembler pseudo-op with four operands:
+   a .stabs assembler pseudo-op with five operands:
     a "name" which is really a description of one symbol and its type,
     a "code", which is a symbol defined in stab.h whose name starts
with N_,
     an unused operand always 0,
+   a "description", which corresponds to the line number of the
+   declaration of the symbol if using GNU debug extensions,
+   and 0 otherwise,
     and a "value" which is an address or an offset.
     The name is enclosed in doublequote characters.
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Sincerely Yours,
Ranjit.

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