From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7558 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2003 23:00:07 -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 14855 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2003 22:01:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (142.179.108.108) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Jun 2003 22:01:56 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id 7F96DD2DAF; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:00:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/doco] Add documentation for the ``minimal'' language Message-ID: <20030624220155.GE7916@gnat.com> References: <20030613005945.GE947@gnat.com> <8582-Fri13Jun2003144152+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8582-Fri13Jun2003144152+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00758.txt.bz2 --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 378 (sorry for the delay, I was on holiday...) > Yes; approved. However, before you commit this, please correct the > following minor issues: Thanks. Applied after making the small adjustments you pointed out. Since I also found a couple of typos, I fixed them too. Here is the change I ended up committing. Shall I go ahead, and commit this change to the branch too? -- Joel --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="minimal-doc.diff" Content-length: 1500 Index: gdb.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.167 diff -u -r1.167 gdb.texinfo --- gdb.texinfo 23 Jun 2003 03:28:14 -0000 1.167 +++ gdb.texinfo 24 Jun 2003 21:56:44 -0000 @@ -7437,6 +7437,7 @@ * Show:: Displaying the language * Checks:: Type and range checks * Support:: Supported languages +* Unsupported languages:: Unsupported languages @end menu @node Setting @@ -8842,6 +8843,22 @@ @cindex @code{#} in Modula-2 In @value{GDBN} scripts, the Modula-2 inequality operator @code{#} is interpreted as the beginning of a comment. Use @code{<>} instead. + +@node Unsupported languages +@section Unsupported languages + +@cindex unsupported languages +@cindex minimal language +In addition to the other fully-supported programming languages, +@value{GDBN} also provides a pseudo-language, called @code{minimal}. +It does not represent a real programming language, but provides a set +of capabilities close to what the C or assembly languages provide. +This should allow most simple operations to be performed while debugging +an application that uses a language currently not supported by @value{GDBN}. + +If the language is set to @code{auto}, @value{GDBN} will automatically +select this language if the current frame corresponds to an unsupported +language. @node Symbols @chapter Examining the Symbol Table --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V--