Re: [RFA] Reverse Debugging, 5/5

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:52:32 -0700
>> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
>> CC: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
>>  "drow@false.org" <drow@false.org>,
>>  "pedro@codesourcery.com" <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
>>  "teawater@gmail.com" <teawater@gmail.com>
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>>>> +  add_com ("reverse-next", class_run, reverse_next, _("\
>>>> +Step program backward, proceeding through subroutine calls.\n\
>>>                         ^
>>> Won't commands like "apropos" stop at the first comma when they
>>> display the short descriptions of commands?
>> Hmmm, you know, "next" has the same issue.
>>
>> (gdb) apropos next
>> [...]
>> next -- Step program
>> nexti -- Step one instruction
>>
>>
>> ... why does it stop after a comma, anyways?
> 
> I have no idea, it's something that came into existence long before I
> started hacking GDB.

Daniel Berlin, May 2000


> I'd say, if not too many doc strings use the comma at the end of the
> first line, let's modify them to use a period, and remove this
> annoying limitation, leaving only the period.  WDYT?

Sounds good to me...