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> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:21:13 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: drow@false.org, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:21:36 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > 
> > > In Ada, as Joel said, this is not true.  *FUNCTION won't work
> > 
> > That's too bad: this is an important feature, so if we cannot make it
> > work in all languages, we should at least document that.
> 
> This is exactly the reason why documenting *FUNCTION on its own is the
> wrong thing to do.  What we implement in GDB is *EXPRESSION, where
> EXPRESSION is an expression in the current language yielding an
> address.

You seem to be saying that documenting things that might be obvious is
a bad thing.  If so, then I disagree: if it wasn't obvious for me,
there will be others.