Amplify last NEWS entry about boolean types in Ada, and add

corresponding description of treatment of True and false to gdb.texinfo.
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2008-08-21 Paul N. Hilfinger <hilfinger@adacore.com>
* NEWS: Amplify last entry on boolean types in Ada.
2008-08-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
* dwarf2read.c (die_specification, dwarf2_extension, follow_die_ref):

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have also been fixed.
* GDB now supports the use of DWARF boolean types for Ada's type Boolean.
From the user's standpoint, all unqualified instances of True and False
are treated as the standard definitions, regardless of context.
* New features in the GDB remote stub, gdbserver

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2008-08-21 Paul N. Hilfinger <hilfinger@adacore.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Omissions from Ada): Describe new treatment of True
and False.
2008-08-20 Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
* gdb.textinfo (GDB/MI Miscellaneous Commands): Use @table

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@item
It is not possible to slice a packed array.
@item
The names @code{True} and @code{False}, when not part of a qualified name,
are interpreted as if implicitly prefixed by @code{Standard}, regardless of
context.
Should your program
redefine these names in a package or procedure (at best a dubious practice),
you will have to use fully qualified names to access their new definitions.
@end itemize
@node Additions to Ada