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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gdb/python: make more use of RegisterDescriptors
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:36:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lfj9dwsm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec85a6d5476012b0fc59192039e8d1fbff029d15.1595584512.git.andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> (message from Andrew Burgess on Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:57:52 +0100)

> From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:57:52 +0100
> 
> +A @code{gdb.RegisterDescriptor} object, see @ref{Registers In Python}
> +for further information.

Please add a comma after the closing brace of @ref.  Newer versions of
Texinfo don't need that, but older ones will barf.

> +@item
> +A @value{GDBN} internal, platform specific number.  Using these
> +numbers is supported for historic reasons, but is not recommended as
> +future changes to @value{GDBN} could change the mapping between numbers
> +and the registers they represent, breaking any Python code.  The

I suggest "breaking any Python code that uses the platform-specific
numbers", to qualify the breakage.

The documentation part is okay with these nits fixed.  Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-24 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-24  9:57 [PATCH 0/2] Allow gdb.RegisterDescriptors to be used in read_register calls Andrew Burgess
2020-07-24  9:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: Add a find method for RegisterDescriptorIterator Andrew Burgess
2020-07-24 10:32   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-24 23:17     ` Andrew Burgess
2020-07-25  6:27       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-24 18:22   ` Tom Tromey
2020-07-24  9:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] gdb/python: make more use of RegisterDescriptors Andrew Burgess
2020-07-24 10:36   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-07-24 18:38   ` Tom Tromey

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