From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31223 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2013 17:05:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 31209 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Mar 2013 17:05:12 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_NIX_SPAM,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il (HELO mtaout21.012.net.il) (80.179.55.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:04:59 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MJI00D009SRUY00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:04:55 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MJI00D26A47P4B0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:04:55 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:05:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] range stepping: New command 'maint set range stepping' In-reply-to: <1363006291-13334-6-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> To: Yao Qi Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <834nghx3yn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1363006291-13334-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <1363006291-13334-6-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.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: 2013-03/txt/msg00476.txt.bz2 > From: Yao Qi > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:51:29 +0800 > > +@kindex maint set range-stepping > +@kindex maint show range-stepping > +@cindex range-stepping > +@item maint set range-stepping > +@itemx maint show range-stepping > +Control whether to do stepping in an address range. Why is this a maintenance command? Anyway, the documentation part is OK. > + add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("range-stepping", class_maintenance, > + &use_range_stepping, _("\ > +Enable or disable range-stepping."), _("\ > +Show whether range-stepping is enabled."), _("\ > +If On, GDB will tell the target to do stepping a range of address.\n\ I suggest If ON, GDB will send a single packet to a target telling it to keep single-stepping as long as PC is inside a certain range of addresses. > +This will speed up stepping a line of source file.\n\ > +If off, GDB will not use it, even if such is supported by the \n\ "will not use this feature". "It" is ambiguous here. Thanks.