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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Siva Chandra <sivachandra@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, dje@google.com, tromey@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC - Python Scripting] New method gdb.Architecture.disassemble
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k3q4p8bu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGyQ6gyAwQpBJ41bOtvQOGKM+OM+7eKQ1TVdTC7-G3O1RG0Geg@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:36:00 -0800
> From: Siva Chandra <sivachandra@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, dje@google.com, tromey@redhat.com
> 
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> +@defun Architecture.disassemble (@var{start_pc} @r{[}, @var{end_pc} @r{[}, @var{count}@r{]]})
> >> +Return a list of at most @var{count} disassembled instructions
> >> +whose start address falls in the closed memory address interval from
> >> +@var{start_pc} to @var{end_pc}.  If @var{end_pc} is not specified, but
> >> +@var{count} is specified, then @var{count} number of instructions
> >> +starting from the address @var{start_pc} are returned.  If @var{count}
> >> +is not specified but @var{end_pc} is specified, then all instructions
> >> +whose start address falls in the closed memory address interval from
> >> +@var{start_pc} to @var{end_pc} are returned.  If neither @var{end_pc}
> >> +nor @var{count} are specified, then a single instruction at
> >> +@var{start_pc} is returned.
> >
> > The description of the optional arguments makes sense, but the @defun
> > line is in contradiction with the description, because it says that
> > one can specify all 3 arguments.  IOW, there should be a '|' somewhere
> > to signal that either end_pc or count, but not both, could be used.
> >
> 
> One can specify all three arguments.  Does the description anywhere
> indicate otherwise?

The text does not describe that possibility at all, so I assumed that
it cannot happen.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-19 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-04 14:09 Siva Chandra
2013-02-05 23:28 ` Doug Evans
2013-02-06  1:53   ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-06 20:00     ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-08 18:05     ` Doug Evans
2013-02-09 17:55       ` Matt Rice
2013-02-12 14:56       ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-12 21:18         ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-13 14:37           ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-13 17:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-13 18:03             ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-13 19:50               ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-13 20:42                 ` Doug Evans
2013-02-14 22:46                   ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-15  6:43                     ` Doug Evans
2013-02-15 17:32                       ` Doug Evans
2013-02-15 17:40                         ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-15 17:41                           ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-15 18:57                           ` Doug Evans
2013-02-15 20:36                       ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-15 21:01                         ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-16  5:30                           ` Doug Evans
2013-02-16  8:47                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-19  5:36                             ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-19 15:51                               ` Paul_Koning
2013-02-19 16:35                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-19 16:38                               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-02-20 12:34                                 ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-20 18:44                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-21  1:49                                     ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-06 19:58 ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-06 20:31   ` Phil Muldoon
2013-02-06 22:31   ` Matt Rice
2013-02-06 23:19     ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-07  1:11       ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-07 23:03         ` Matt Rice
     [not found]       ` <20130206235707.GA2353@klara.mpi.htwm.de>
2013-02-07  1:18         ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-07 14:14   ` Siva Chandra
2013-02-07 16:42     ` Tom Tromey

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