From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1793 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2001 03:14:38 -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 1210 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2001 03:13:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2001 03:13:20 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16Dzpf-0001PA-00; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:13:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:14:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 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: <20011211221319.B5098@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , 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> <20011211144333.B22746@nevyn.them.org> <3C16B72E.7020300@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C16B72E.7020300@cygnus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00319.txt.bz2 On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:47:26PM -0800, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >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? > > > I think the ``maint'' commands are like the ``remote protocol spec'' and > the MI interface. While not for the average user, they do define > external user accessable interfaces to GDB. In that case, I'd almost rather rename the Internals manual to a Developers manual - for development involving, rather than using but not necessarily directly on, GDB. I don't consider that fit for the User's manual. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer