From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make cygwin use .gdbinit Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20011125193544.GA2355@redhat.com> References: <20011124182316.GA24305@redhat.com> <200111250901.LAA03863@is.elta.co.il> <20011125185807.GB2124@redhat.com> <5137-Sun25Nov2001211400+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg00431.html Message-ID: <20011125113500.1D-25wSZVSoO-WqI_h5Ov8jeOMWHD51POLil7ZU5YeQ@z> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:14:00PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:58:07 -0500 >> From: Christopher Faylor >> > >> >Sigh. Unfortunately, this wording is inaccurate and might be >> >misleading: it gives an impression that gdb.ini is only used on >> >MS-DOS. This is not true, since the DJGPP port works on Windows as >> >well, but still uses gdb.ini there. >> >> >From www.delorie.com/djgpp: >> >> "DJGPP is a complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel 80386 >> (and higher) PCs running DOS." >> >> I guess this documentation is about as misleading as the first sentence >> of this web page. > >Perhaps. However, DJ's Web page is not something I need to approve ;-) Ok. You're obviously critical of the wording changes and I apologize for assuming that this was an obvious fix. I will note that while DJGPP is mentioned in the documentation as "development tools to MS-DOS and MS-Windows". This sentence is followed by "djgpp programs are 32-bit protected-mode programs that use the DPMI (DOS Protected-Mode Interface) API to run on top of real-mode DOS systems and their emulations." There's a lot of "DOS" in the above. And there's a lot of "DOS" in the subsequent paragraphs. However, neither your sighing nor my nit picking is going to improve the documentation to what you would consider acceptable. What are your suggestions for how I can improve the documentation? Do you just want me to revert it? Do you want me to change the MS-DOS's to DJGPP's? Should I keep the existing documentation and just say Unix/Cygwin? cgf