Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] compile: compile printf: gdbserver support

Jan Kratochvil
2015-04-11T19:23:32Z

On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 19:43:22 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> > +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> > @@ -17246,7 +17246,9 @@ multiple-line editor.
> > @item compile printf @var{template}, @var{expressions}@dots{}
> > Compile and execute @code{printf} function call with the compiler
> > language found as the current language in @value{GDBN}
> > -(@pxref{Languages}).
> > +(@pxref{Languages}). Inferior executes @code{open_memstream} and
> > +@code{fprintf} instead so that the produced string is printed by
> > +@value{GDBN} and not the inferior.
>
> Is this really important to say in the manual?
>
> And if it is, why not simply say that the value is printed by GDB
> itself, not by calling functions in the inferior?

Used:
The value is printed by @value{GDBN} and not the inferior, inferior
does not execute specifically the function @code{printf}.

Jan