Re: [PATCH] gdb/doc: improve 'show print elements' description

[Tom de Vries via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 10/6/21 1:31 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> The documentation for 'show print elements' contains the line:
> 
>   If the number is 0, then the printing is unlimited.
> 
> However, this line is now out of date as can be seen by this GDB
> session:
> 
>   (gdb) set print elements 0
>   (gdb) show print elements
>   Limit on string chars or array elements to print is unlimited.
> 
> The value 0 does indeed mean unlimited, and this is described in the
> 'set print elements' section, however, for 'show print elements' the
> user will never see the value 0, so lets just remove that bit from the
> docs.

LGTM..

Thanks,
- Tom

> ---
>  gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> index c156a1d6739..a6f207a41a7 100644
> --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> @@ -11376,7 +11376,6 @@
>  
>  @item show print elements
>  Display the number of elements of a large array that @value{GDBN} will print.
> -If the number is 0, then the printing is unlimited.
>  
>  @anchor{set print frame-arguments}
>  @item set print frame-arguments @var{value}
>