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

Tom de Vries via Gdb-patches
2021-10-06T12:47:51Z

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 However, this line is now out of date as can be seen by this GDB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}
>