Re: FYI: minsyms documentation

Tom Tromey
2012-01-02T22:08:17Z

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Stan> Are newbies learning by reading the manual, or reading the code?

Eli> What newbies? The people who hack at the core features of GDB can be
Eli> counted on fingers of a single hand, and they didn't change in years.

There have been multiple new contributors since I started seriously
working on GDB 3 years ago.

Eli> Again, the current content of that manual can only do a mis-service,
Eli> so redistributing it is wasted effort.

This is not entirely true. Some of gdbint.texinfo is badly out of date,
but some of it is still relevant. This is why I have not tried to
delete it. For example, it is still the only documentation for ui-out
and for cleanups; and, due to licensing, I think that text cannot be
moved into comments in the code without special dispensation from the
FSF.

Tom