From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31393 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2001 01:47:35 -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 31366 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2001 01:47:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (205.180.231.71) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2001 01:47:29 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2150A3D60; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:47:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C16B72E.7020300@cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:47:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011207 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz 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 References: <3C162900.288B@redhat.com> <7263-Tue11Dec2001192006+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20011211144333.B22746@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00317.txt.bz2 > 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. enjoy, Andrew