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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: jingham@apple.com
Cc: drow@mvista.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: add set cp-abi command
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8296-Thu11Apr2002222005+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C31A558C-4CAE-11D6-B08E-000393540DDC@apple.com> (message from Jim Ingham on Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:14:13 -0700)

> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:14:13 -0700
> From: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>
> 
> > Please explain in a few words what "ABI" means; I don't think Joe Random
> > C++ User will necessarily know that.  A list of possible values one can
> > use (in addition to "auto") is also something the manual should have.
> 
> I not sure I agree with this.  First off, this "set" section doesn't 
> explain what other similarly obscure terms mean (like "set vtable").  
> These are expert features, so if you need them presumably you know what 
> they are.

Nevertheless, I think it doesn't hurt to say something like this:

  Set the C@t{++} @dfn{ABI} (Application Binary Interface) that
  @value{GDBN} will use to decode C@t{++} objects.

> Also, the available types are dynamically generated.

Does it mean we don't know at least some of the possible values in
advance?  I'd be surprised.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-11 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-13 10:56 Jim Ingham
2002-03-13 12:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-14 13:14   ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-14 13:26     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-15 15:53       ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-15 19:41         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-18 12:01           ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-20 15:19             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-20 19:02               ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-22 10:34                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-22 11:04                   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-22 11:09                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-22 11:29                       ` Jim Ingham
2002-04-09 17:27                       ` Jim Ingham
2002-04-09 17:54                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-10 11:10                           ` Jim Ingham
2002-04-10 11:58                             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-09 22:33                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-10 11:14                           ` Jim Ingham
2002-04-11 12:25                             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-03-15 17:11       ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-13 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-14 15:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-15 10:33   ` Jim Ingham
2002-03-15 17:29     ` Andrew Cagney

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