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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@gnat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA]: Turn on Ada support
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9003-Wed09Jun2004204544+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040609092355.AA07EF2956@nile.gnat.com> (message from Paul Hilfinger on Wed, 9 Jun 2004 05:23:55 -0400 (EDT))

> From: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@gnat.com>
> Date: Wed,  9 Jun 2004 05:23:55 -0400 (EDT)
> > 
> > What else can B be in this context?
> 
> A function name.  I take it "function or file @var{B}" is too terse for you?

No, I simply missed that, sorry.

> > This should say "as of @value{GDBN} version X.YY".  A year or two from
> > now, someone will have hard time updating this verbiage given the
> > changes in Ada support.
>  
> OK, but I am not sure what editorial comment you are implying with the
> word "verbiage" (:->).

A bad way to say "wording"... ;-)

> > > +The type of the @t{'Address} attribute may not be @t{System.Address}.
> > 
> > I think you should use @code instead of @t in this and similar cases.
> 
> Umph.  The problem is that @code{'Address} generates `'Address' in Info files,
> which looks odd.

That's true, but isn't that a problem in all Ada-related
documentation?


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-09 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-08  9:08 Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-08 22:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-09  9:23   ` Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-09 18:25     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-06-10  9:40       ` Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-09  7:24 ` Jim Blandy
2004-06-09  9:40   ` Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-09 13:12   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-06-09 13:40     ` Andrew Cagney
2004-06-09 16:21     ` Jim Blandy
2004-06-10  9:50     ` Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-16  8:42     ` [RFA]: Turn on Ada support, take 2 Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-16 18:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-17  5:24         ` Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-17 17:48           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-16  8:34   ` [PATCH]: Further updates to ada-* files Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-27  0:10     ` Andrew Cagney
2004-06-27  8:56       ` Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-28 14:47         ` Andrew Cagney

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