From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24706 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2001 19:44:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24350 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2001 19:43:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2001 19:43:39 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16DsoP-0005xn-00; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:43:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:44:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: msnyder@redhat.com, jimb@cygnus.com, fnf@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: "maint print type" should print all the flag bits Message-ID: <20011211144333.B22746@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , msnyder@redhat.com, jimb@cygnus.com, fnf@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3C162900.288B@redhat.com> <7263-Tue11Dec2001192006+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7263-Tue11Dec2001192006+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00311.txt.bz2 On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:20:06PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:40:48 -0800 > > From: Michael Snyder > > > > Perhaps there needs to be a developers manual? > > That's a possibility. However, the number of maint commands is quite > small, and hardly warrants a separate manual. > > How about having an Appendix where all maint commands would be > documented? We have an internals manual, don't we? The maint commands are only useful if you're wandering around in the internals. So why not say as much in the user manual, and document them in the internals manual? -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer