Re: [RFA] Avoid recursivly defined user functions.

[Don Howard <dhoward@redhat.com>]

How's this?


2002-04-13  Don Howard  <dhoward@redhat.com>

	From Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
	* gdb.texinfo (show max-user-call-depth): Correct formatting.
	Provide a better explaination of this feature. 



Index: gdb.texinfo
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.96
diff -p -u -w -r1.96 gdb.texinfo
--- gdb.texinfo	12 Apr 2002 22:31:23 -0000	1.96
+++ gdb.texinfo	13 Apr 2002 16:30:18 -0000
@@ -12784,9 +12784,10 @@ definitions for all user-defined command
 @kindex show max-user-call-depth
 @kindex set max-user-call-depth
 @item show max-user-call-depth
-@item set max-user-call-depth
-The value of @code{max-user-call-depth} controls how many levels deep a
-user-defined call chain can go.  Default is 1024.
+@itemx set max-user-call-depth
+The value of @code{max-user-call-depth} controls how many recursion
+levels are allowed in user-defined commands before GDB suspects an
+infinite recursion and aborts the command.
 
 @end table
 




On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Don Howard <dhoward@redhat.com>
> >  
> > +@kindex show max-user-call-depth
> > +@kindex set max-user-call-depth
> > +@item show max-user-call-depth
> > +@item set max-user-call-depth
> 
> The second @item should be @itemx.  In general, all the @item's but
> the first one should be @itemx when they all pertain to the same entry
> in the @table (or in @itemize list).  This is so the produced text
> looks like this:
> 
>   [previous text]
> 
>   show max-user-call-depth
>   set max-user-call-depth
>       The value of `max-user-call-depth' controls how many...
> 
> instead of this:
> 
>   [previous text]
> 
>   show max-user-call-depth
> 
>   set max-user-call-depth
>       The value of `max-user-call-depth' controls how many...
> 
> where the extra line between the two @item's makes the first one look
> as if the following text doesn't apply to it.
> 
> > +The value of @code{max-user-call-depth} controls how many levels deep a
> > +user-defined call chain can go.
> 
> Perhaps this text is a bit more clear:
> 
>   The value of @code{max-user-call-depth} controls how many recursion
>   levels are allowed in user-defined commands before GDB suspects an
>   infinite recursion and aborts the command.
> 

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