From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: FYI: minsyms documentation
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3obulhi6g.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vcp7xqxx.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:12:26 +0200")
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Stan> Are newbies learning by reading the manual, or reading the code?
Eli> What newbies? The people who hack at the core features of GDB can be
Eli> counted on fingers of a single hand, and they didn't change in years.
There have been multiple new contributors since I started seriously
working on GDB 3 years ago.
Eli> Again, the current content of that manual can only do a mis-service,
Eli> so redistributing it is wasted effort.
This is not entirely true. Some of gdbint.texinfo is badly out of date,
but some of it is still relevant. This is why I have not tried to
delete it. For example, it is still the only documentation for ui-out
and for cleanups; and, due to licensing, I think that text cannot be
moved into comments in the code without special dispensation from the
FSF.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-02 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-22 4:44 Tom Tromey
2011-12-22 5:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-12-22 20:13 ` Stan Shebs
2011-12-22 20:21 ` Tom Tromey
2011-12-22 21:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-23 4:21 ` Stan Shebs
2011-12-23 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 22:08 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-01-03 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-24 7:45 ` Yao Qi
2011-12-24 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 22:08 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-03 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-22 21:18 ` Stan Shebs
2011-12-23 10:38 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-02 22:14 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-03 2:53 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-03 11:05 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-03 13:21 ` commands.h and cli/cli-decode.h dups (was: Re: FYI: minsyms documentation) Pedro Alves
2012-01-03 14:57 ` commands.h and cli/cli-decode.h dups Tom Tromey
2012-01-03 17:11 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-05 11:40 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-03 11:18 ` FYI: minsyms documentation Pedro Alves
2012-01-15 18:49 ` Michael Eager
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