Re: [RFA] [4/4] Remove libgdb API (gdb.h & doc)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:19:30 -0700
> 
> Eli>   . Why does it make sense to remove gdb.h, if the library is going to
> Eli>     stay?
> 
> gdb.h declares a few wrappers that follow a different exception
> convention from the rest of gdb.  However, there aren't enough of these
> wrappers to actually interface any client program with the rest of gdb;
> clients in practice will have to use the other exception handling
> mechanism.  So, at present this stuff serves to obfuscate more than
> help.  Also, I don't think anybody is going to, or should, work on
> extending this interface.
> 
> So, removing this is a cleanup.  It helps make gdb more regular.

Thanks for the explanations.

In that case, I think the change to the manual went one notch too far:
it should only remove references to gdb.h, but not to libgdb itself.
IOW, rephrase the text that references gdb.h and libgdb such that it
references only the latter.

TIA