[binutils-gdb] Remove note about C++ demangler from Rust documentation
Tom Tromey via Gdb-cvs <[email protected]>
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=16fc179eb187c9574c99df040ba72924fb4c81d6 commit 16fc179eb187c9574c99df040ba72924fb4c81d6 Author: Tom Tromey <[email protected]> Date: Tue Mar 10 12:00:43 2026 -0600 Remove note about C++ demangler from Rust documentation A note about the C++ demangler in the Rust documentation hasn't been accurate for a while. Also, it probably isn't clear to users how this related to the next bit of text in the same bullet point. This patch removes the obsolete comment. Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Diff: --- gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 63f6fe39a55..ceb69669ea6 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -18396,12 +18396,10 @@ to call generic functions or otherwise refer to generic items, you will have to specify the type parameters manually. @item -@value{GDBN} currently uses the C@t{++} demangler for Rust. In most -cases this does not cause any problems. However, in an expression -context, completing a generic function name will give syntactically -invalid results. This happens because Rust requires the @samp{::} -operator between the function name and its generic arguments. For -example, @value{GDBN} might provide a completion like +In an expression context, completing a generic function name will give +syntactically invalid results. This happens because Rust requires the +@samp{::} operator between the function name and its generic +arguments. For example, @value{GDBN} might provide a completion like @code{crate::f<u32>}, where the parser would require @code{crate::f::<u32>}.