Re: [PATCH] -stack-select-frame

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 01:14:56PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:39:00 +1200
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > 
> >  > > -stack-info-frame hasn't been implemented yet (I've think we've been here
> >  > > before) but it would probably be quite easy to implement and I guess it
> >  > > could work like I've made -stack-select-frame without an argument work.
> >  > 
> >  > *snicker* that's what I get for reading the manual.  I assumed it was
> >  > implemented.
> >  > 
> >  > Maybe it is time to mark the unimplemented commands in the manual?
> > 
> > It _is_ documented as unimplemented in my copy.
> 
> Well, not really ``documented as''.  The manual says that commands
> whose "Example" section says "N.A." are not implemented, but a reader
> who reads a description of a certain command will not necessarily
> deduce that.

It took me a few minutes poking through the manual to find this, even
after you told me it was there...

> I think we should simply @ignore-out such commands.

I'm OK with that, especially if you prefer it.  I'd like to either do
that, or expand the N.A. to be explicit ("N.A.@: - not implemented
yet").

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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