From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19007 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2014 15:50:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 18992 invoked by uid 89); 7 Aug 2014 15:50:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mtaout27.012.net.il Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il (HELO mtaout27.012.net.il) (80.179.55.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:50:31 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N9Y00C000QE3Q00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:45:37 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N9Y00BJ61417P20@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:45:37 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:50:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [doc] Avoid conflicts between gdb and cross-gdb. In-reply-to: <5772813.BLhj1dYueK@vapier> To: Mike Frysinger Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, monaka@monami-software.com Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <8338d8nvsc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140806132435.GC5204@adacore.com> <837g2lpmzz.fsf@gnu.org> <5772813.BLhj1dYueK@vapier> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 > From: Mike Frysinger > Cc: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, monaka@monami-software.com > Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:21:13 -0400 > > > Besides, why do that? The Info manual does not include any > > system-specific information, it is valid for all supported systems. > > So I see no reason to put it into a system-dependent place or call it > > by system-dependent name. > > it's not system-dependent, but it is version dependent. reading the > documentation for the native version can be wildly inaccurate than the > documentation for the cross version. it's probably less of an issue for gdb > as features/flags don't change wildly quickly, but it makes a huge difference > for gcc (e.g. 4.7 to 4.8 to 4.9). As I wrote elsewhere, Info doesn't support different versions of the same manual installed on the same system, without some non-trivial tinkering.