2000-05-28 Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>

	* bugs.texi: Note that debugging information for
	common block items is emitted now.
	* news.texi: Ditto.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@34231 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4

diff --git a/gcc/f/ChangeLog b/gcc/f/ChangeLog
index ef0cf90..fb83e73 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/f/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/f/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2000-05-28  Toon Moene  <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
+
+       * bugs.texi: Note that debugging information for
+       common block items is emitted now.
+       * news.texi: Ditto.
+
 2000-05-18  Chris Demetriou  <cgd@sibyte.com>
 
        * com.h (FFECOM_f2cINTEGER, FFECOM_f2cLONGINT): Note that

diff --git a/gcc/f/bugs.texi b/gcc/f/bugs.texi
index be51c8e..52f0edf 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/f/bugs.texi
+++ b/gcc/f/bugs.texi
@@ -177,12 +177,12 @@ for information on how to change the point at which
 @cindex equivalence areas
 @cindex local equivalence areas
 @item
-@code{g77} doesn't emit variable and array members of common blocks for use
+Previous versions of @code{g77} didn't emit information on
+variable and array members of common blocks for use
 with a debugger (the @samp{-g} command-line option).
-The code is present to do this, but doesn't work with at least
-one debug format---perhaps it works with others.
-And it turns out there's a similar bug for
-local equivalence areas, so that has been disabled as well.
+As of the version of @code{g77} shipped with version 3.0 of
+@code{GCC}, this is corrected.  However, there's a similar bug for
+local equivalence areas, which hasn't been repaired yet.
 
 As of Version 0.5.19, a temporary kludge solution is provided whereby
 some rudimentary information on a member is written as a string that

diff --git a/gcc/f/news.texi b/gcc/f/news.texi
index dceaeac..9f420b7 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/f/news.texi
+++ b/gcc/f/news.texi
@@ -155,6 +155,13 @@ The following information was last updated on @value{last-update-news}:
 @itemize @bullet
 @ifclear USERVISONLY
 @item
+Using options @code{-g}, @code{-ggdb} or @code{-gdwarf[-2]} (where
+appropriate for your target) now also enables debugging information
+for COMMON BLOCK items to be emitted.
+@end ifclear
+
+@ifclear USERVISONLY
+@item
 The @code{TtyNam} intrinsics now set @var{Name} to all spaces (at run time)
 if the system has no @code{ttyname} implementation available.
 @end ifclear