From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19314 invoked by alias); 12 May 2006 08:14:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 19291 invoked by uid 22791); 12 May 2006 08:14:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 May 2006 08:13:56 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FeSmI-0005Jn-Di for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:13:38 +0200 Received: from zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su ([158.250.17.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:13:38 +0200 Received: from ghost by zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:13:38 +0200 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 08:14:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20060512011730.GA26655@brasko.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.8.2 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00232.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:17:30 -0400 >> From: Bob Rossi >> >> I hope this looks correct. Please let me know otherwise. I think it's >> an improvement over what is there now, and could save others valuable >> research time. > > Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say here, exactly. > Explaining why we did something in the past does not belong in the > manual (except maybe in a footnote, if it is _very_ important to > mention history). > > Perhaps I wasn't following the thread closely enough, so I missed > something important. Can you state what information is missing from > the current text in this section? You say above that the changes > ``could save others valuable research time''--what did you need to > research, and why, and what did you find that wasn't described in the > manual? I'd agree with Eli that the proposed text sounds a bit like history, but it documents some important points: - That you can type CLI commands into MI, and this is not longer considered to work just by accident - That typing CLI command has the same effect as -interpreter-exec console - That CLI command don't produce async notifications Those points are important to have documented, IMO. - Volodya