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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/doc] Redefine the length argument in remote Z packets
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100129210525.GD4757@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bpgcskcc.fsf@gnu.org>

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:54:27PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > -@item z2,@var{addr},@var{length}
> > -@itemx Z2,@var{addr},@var{length}
> > +@item z2,@var{addr},@var{kind}
> > +@itemx Z2,@var{addr},@var{kind}
> >  @cindex @samp{z2} packet
> >  @cindex @samp{Z2} packet
> > -Insert (@samp{Z2}) or remove (@samp{z2}) a write watchpoint.
> > +Insert (@samp{Z2}) or remove (@samp{z2}) a write watchpoint covering
> > +@var{kind} bytes at @var{addr}.
> 
> "covering KIND bytes" sounds awkward.  How about
> 
>   Insert (@samp{Z2}) or remove (@samp{z2}) a write watchpoint.
>   @var{kind} is 2 for watching a 2-byte region, 4 for watching a
>   4-byte region.
> 
> and similarly with Z3 and Z4?

Except it really can be any number of bytes now.  "@var{kind} is
interpreted as the number of bytes to watch"?

> you want "see @ref" instead of "@xref", because the latter produces a
> capitalized "See", which will look wrong after a semi-colon.

Thanks!

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-29 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-28 22:29 Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-01-29  9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-29 15:30   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-01-29 20:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-29 21:05       ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2010-01-29 21:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-01 16:09           ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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