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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] set/show code-cache NEWS and doc
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837gd2itkj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5268D967.2000703@codesourcery.com>

> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:25:11 +0800
> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> CC: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> On 10/23/2013 11:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Thanks.  However, this (and even more importantly, the manual) should
> > explain what is "code" in this context.  "Code" is too general a word
> > to hope that the reader will immediately understand what you mean.
> > 
> 
> I go through gdb.texinfo, and find "program code" is used in some
> places.  I choose it.

The problem in this case is that it's unclear whether you are talking
about accessing the source code or the code (a.k.a. ".text") section
of the executable.  "Program code" could mean either of these two.

> > Also, the last sentence above should be in the manual; it's not good
> > that the manual has less details than NEWS.
> 
> OK, add one line in the manual to mention that this improves
> disassemble.  How about this?

Replace "disassemble" with "disassembly", and I'm happy.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-24 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-23  8:29 [PATCH 0/5] Cache code access for disassemble Yao Qi
2013-10-23  8:29 ` [PATCH 3/5] set/show code-cache Yao Qi
2013-10-25  7:47   ` Doug Evans
2013-10-25 14:35     ` Yao Qi
2013-10-25 15:57       ` Doug Evans
2013-10-26 13:24         ` Yao Qi
2013-10-28 18:33           ` Doug Evans
2013-10-23  8:29 ` [PATCH 5/5] set/show code-cache NEWS and doc Yao Qi
2013-10-23 15:25   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-24  8:26     ` Yao Qi
2013-10-24 15:21       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]         ` <526A3B07.1020607@codesourcery.com>
2013-10-25 10:01           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-02  0:25             ` Yao Qi
2013-11-02  7:06               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-23  8:29 ` [PATCH 4/5] Use target_read_code in disassemble Yao Qi
2013-10-23  8:29 ` [PATCH 2/5] Associate target_dcache to address_space Yao Qi
2013-10-23 16:37   ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-24  8:33     ` Yao Qi
2013-10-28 20:49       ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-28 21:51   ` Doug Evans
2013-10-23  8:29 ` [PATCH 1/5] Add REGISTRY for struct address_space Yao Qi
2013-10-28 20:46   ` Tom Tromey

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