Re: Implement -exec-jump

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Andr=E9_P=F6nitz?= <andre.poenitz@nokia.com>
> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:05:41 +0100
> 
> I personally pretty much prefer progress on the MI implementation
> side, if that means a few days delay on the documentation,
> (or even a small risk of having no documentation at all(!)),
> so I am _personally_ fine with it.

If that turns out to be the opinion of the majority of GDB users, I'll
probably resign as the docs maintainer, because putting in all those
efforts when no one needs them is waste of my scarce free time.

> That's a interesting proposal. There is so much stuff, basic stuff 
> even, undocumented, so Joe Frontend has to read the sources 
> anyway.

As long as I am responsible for the documentation here, I urge you to
report any such cases, and I will try to improve the docs as well as I
can.

> As an example: The quoting rules for the CLI are completely 
> opaque, but, giving the de-facto non-existence of a binary
> interface to gdb, crucial for any frontend.  A frontend can
> not just go "type a command" - "hey, gdb does not like it, so 
> try to put in a quote or two"...

Typing "i quot TAB" in the Info reader of the GDB manual brings up the
"quotes in commands" index entry, which leads to a place that has some
documentation of quoting.  I'm not saying that this is what you need,
but please tell what details are missing from what it says there.