[Bug fortran/12317] New: Incorrect documentation for Fortran debugging features. A patch file follows.

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           Summary: Incorrect documentation for Fortran debugging features.
                    A patch file follows.
           Product: gcc
           Version: 3.4
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P3
         Component: fortran
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: bugzilla at w170 dot uklinux dot net
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org

--- gcc-3.4-20030806/gcc/f/ChangeLog.orig       Thu Jul 31 06:49:13 2003
+++ gcc-3.4-20030806/gcc/f/ChangeLog    Tue Sep 16 07:07:08 2003
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Sep 16 07:06:00 2003  George Helffrich   <george@geo.titech.ac.jp>
+
+        * g77.texi: Remove comment about debugging information for common
+       blocks not working.
+
 Thu Jul 31 01:47:27 2003  Kaveh R. Ghazi  <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
 
        * com.c (ffecom_init_0): Use `dconsthalf'.
--- gcc-3.4-20030806/gcc/f/g77.texi.orig        Fri May 16 16:02:19 2003
+++ gcc-3.4-20030806/gcc/f/g77.texi     Tue Sep 16 07:05:07 2003
@@ -6900,13 +6900,6 @@
 is unlikely to ever offer this ability (due to limitations in the
 C language).
 
-However, due to apparent bugs in the back end, @command{g77} currently doesn't
-take advantage of this facility at all---it doesn't emit any debugging
-information for @code{COMMON} and @code{EQUIVALENCE} areas,
-other than information
-on the array of @code{char} it creates (and, in the case
-of local @code{EQUIVALENCE}, names) for each such area.
-
 Yet another example is arrays.
 @command{g77} represents them to the debugger
 using the same ``dimensionality'' as in the source code, while @command{f2c}