Re: RFA: document macro support

[Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>]

Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Jim Blandy wrote:-
> 
> > 
> > 2002-05-13  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
> > 
> > 	* gdbint.texinfo (C Preprocessor Macros): New chapter.
> > 	Include it in the main menu.
> > 	(Contributors): Credit Jim Blandy with macro support.
> > 	(Compilation): Explain how to get macro information into the
> > 	executable.
> > 	(Expressions): Note that preprocessor macros are expanded.
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> Just a minor nit: in GCC, we're quite picky now about using
> @command and @option correctly.

I didn't even know those directives existed!  I'll read the texinfo
manual, and post a revised patch shortly.

> Is there any progress on using libcpp, or is that on the back burner?

Well, first libcpp needs to be disentangled from GCC.  Right now it
shares its configury and build files with GCC, and lives in the `gcc'
directory.  All of this makes it rather difficult to share libcpp
between the gcc and sourceware repositories.  Zack W. has volunteered
to disintegrate libcpp, but apparently the 3.2 release process hinders
this.

I'll be posting GDB tests for the macro support in the next few days.
They will include tests for the bugs you pointed out in my macro
expander, so the issues with token marking won't be forgotten.