[PATCH] Small fix to gdb.Value constructor doc

[PATCH] Small fix to gdb.Value constructor doc

[Simon Marchi]

The synopsis of the two-parameters form of the gdb.Value constructor is
currently shown as

    Value.__init__ (val, [, type ])

in the documentation.

First, there is an extra comma, which I think we can remove in any
case.

Then, since the type parameter is not optional, I would not put in
between square brackets.  Those usually indicate that something is
optional.

With this patch, it appears as:

    Value.__init__ (val, type)

gdb/doc/ChangeLog:

	* python.texi (Values From Inferior): Change synopsys of the
	second form of Value.__init__.
---
 gdb/doc/python.texi | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/doc/python.texi b/gdb/doc/python.texi
index 7f6f52c4df..aaaa4ff1a6 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/python.texi
+++ b/gdb/doc/python.texi
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ its result is used.
 @end table
 @end defun
 
-@defun Value.__init__ (@var{val}, @r{[}, type @r{]})
+@defun Value.__init__ (@var{val}, type)
 This second form of the @code{gdb.Value} constructor returns a
 @code{gdb.Value} of type @var{type} where the value contents are taken
 from the Python buffer object specified by @var{val}.  The number of
-- 
2.21.0

Re: [PATCH] Small fix to gdb.Value constructor doc

[Kevin Buettner]

On Tue,  5 Mar 2019 12:05:44 -0500
Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com> wrote:

> The synopsis of the two-parameters form of the gdb.Value constructor is
> currently shown as
> 
>     Value.__init__ (val, [, type ])
> 
> in the documentation.
> 
> First, there is an extra comma, which I think we can remove in any
> case.
> 
> Then, since the type parameter is not optional, I would not put in
> between square brackets.  Those usually indicate that something is
> optional.
> 
> With this patch, it appears as:
> 
>     Value.__init__ (val, type)

I agree with your changes.  Thanks for fixing this!

Kevin

Re: [PATCH] Small fix to gdb.Value constructor doc

[Simon Marchi]

On 2019-03-05 12:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
>> Cc: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>,
>> 	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>> 	Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
>> Date: Tue,  5 Mar 2019 12:05:44 -0500
>> 
>> gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
>> 
>> 	* python.texi (Values From Inferior): Change synopsys of the
>> 	second form of Value.__init__.
> 
> Thanks, this is OK, but please take care of this gotcha:
> 
>> -@defun Value.__init__ (@var{val}, @r{[}, type @r{]})
>> +@defun Value.__init__ (@var{val}, type)
> 
> "type" should also be in @var.

I pushed it with this fixed.

Thanks,

Simon