From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8889 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2009 09:29:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 8879 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Apr 2009 09:29:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il (HELO mtaout7.012.net.il) (84.95.2.19) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:28:53 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KHR00000ZG0Z400@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:28:50 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.163.15]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KHR001AKZO0X0B0@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:28:49 +0300 (IDT) Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:29:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Implement -exec-jump In-reply-to: <200904081116.41983.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> To: =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9_P=C3=B6nitz?= Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <833acj5wdi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <200904080950.16691.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <200904081108.17248.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <837i1v627o.fsf@gnu.org> <200904081116.41983.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2009-04/txt/msg00145.txt.bz2 > From: =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9_P=C3=B6nitz?= > Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:16:41 +0100 > > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 09:20:43 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Vladimir Prus > > [...] > > > Do you think having a window of time where *development version* > > > has an undocumented feature that is primary targeted at *frontend developers* > > > is worse than not having that feature at all? > > > > Yes, that's what I think. > > I disagree. Well, you are not responsible for the GDB documentation; I am. If we are going to allow committing undocumented code, I would ask to install some procedures to make sure it gets documented eventually. For now, I don't have any practical suggestion for such procedures, and I cannot be responsible for a job that other maintainers and contributors are preventing me to do well. Please be fair and understand where I'm coming from. > At worst, I have to look up the exact syntax to use in the > sources. No big deal. Then why have the manual in the first place? Let them use the sources.