From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22964 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2011 20:16:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 22952 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Oct 2011 20:16:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-fx0-f41.google.com) (209.85.161.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:16:38 +0000 Received: by faat2 with SMTP id t2so1199894faa.0 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:16:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.14.3 with SMTP id e3mr51468784faa.25.1319573797531; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:16:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.22.6 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:16:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83ehy0ded8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4E8DCE67.80507@earthlink.net> <4E92E639.7000402@earthlink.net> <83ipnjs9i1.fsf@gnu.org> <83ipndc92n.fsf@gnu.org> <83ehy0ded8.fsf@gnu.org> From: Justin Lebar Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Status of 'blacklist' patch? To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: dje@google.com, stanshebs@earthlink.net, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00682.txt.bz2 On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Justin Lebar >> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:49:51 -0400 >> Cc: dje@google.com, stanshebs@earthlink.net, gdb-patches@sourceware.org >> >> > (If you have a function called @code{file} that you want to skip, use >> > @kbd{skip function file} to specify it.) >> >> I have no stake in the matter, but is this really such a common issue >> that it belongs in the manual? > > Put yourself in the shoes of someone who, however rare this can be, > stumbles on it. In the unlikely case that I actually opened the manual (not because it's no good, but because most people I know who use GDB aren't aware of the manual -- it's not well-linked on the web), I think the fact that there are |skip file| and |skip function| commands would clear things up pretty quickly. There's a cost to a comment like this; it's not useful to most readers, but they have to parse it anyway. (What the heck does "skip function file" mean?) But again, I don't really have a stake in this either way. I just want to get my patch in. :)