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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: FYI: minsyms documentation
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83obuyxvjl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EF54B6D.907@codesourcery.com>

> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:47:57 +0800
> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> 
> newbies are learning by manual reading at the beginning

Then they will learn a lot of incorrect things at the beginning.

> In JDK, all the documentation to a class and its methods are written in
> source file, and only one small text file is for package description.
> In package description, the overview is given and relationship of these
> classes is described.  Most of the doc in details are still in comment
> of source file.  I don't think we can copy this approach here, but we
> can do something similar here.  Put detailed doc in gdbint.texinfo to
> relevant source files, and only leave overview and high-level doc in it.
>  In this way, we don't have to pay much effort to keep gdbint.texinfo
> synchronized with source, and gdbint.texinfo is still quite useful.

Take a look at libiberty and at bfd: they use something very similar.
We could do the same with gdbint.texinfo (I think I proposed that as
well some time ago, but no one was for it).


  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-24  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-22  4:44 Tom Tromey
2011-12-22  5:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-12-22 20:13 ` Stan Shebs
2011-12-22 20:21   ` Tom Tromey
2011-12-22 21:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-23  4:21       ` Stan Shebs
2011-12-23 16:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 22:08           ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-03  8:17             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-24  7:45         ` Yao Qi
2011-12-24 13:21           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-01-02 22:08           ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-03  8:18             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-22 21:18     ` Stan Shebs
2011-12-23 10:38   ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-02 22:14     ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-03  2:53       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-03 11:05         ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-03 13:21           ` commands.h and cli/cli-decode.h dups (was: Re: FYI: minsyms documentation) Pedro Alves
2012-01-03 14:57             ` commands.h and cli/cli-decode.h dups Tom Tromey
2012-01-03 17:11               ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-05 11:40                 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-03 11:18 ` FYI: minsyms documentation Pedro Alves
2012-01-15 18:49 ` Michael Eager

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